A Life in Light and Pigment In the coastal air of Trondheim, a man named Hans Emil Andreas Jahn began a life that would bridge the gap between the traditional brushstroke and the emerging science of the lens. Born in 1834, he belonged to a generation that witnessed the world changing through the eye of a camera. His hands were as comfortable holding a palette as they were adjusting the delicate mechanisms of a photographic apparatus. This dual nature defined his existence, as he moved through the mid-to-late nineteenth century as both a painter and a photographer. His creative impulses were n…