Peter Larsen (media scholar)

Peter Larsen (born 1943) is professor of media studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Larsen's research areas include textual and sociohistorical studies of older as well as newer visual media. His theoretical and analytical work is informed by linguistics, semiotics, psychoanalysis and recent advances in rhetoric.

Larsen was director of Photography in Culture, a national research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2003–2007). In recent years, he has published a number of books and articles on photo theory and photo history.

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