Kjell Bloch Sandved

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name = Kjell Bloch Sandved


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known_for = Butterfly Alphabet
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employer = National Museum of Natural History for the Smithsonian Institution (retired)
occupation = Author, lecturer and nature photographer
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website = http://www.butterflyalphabet.com/
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Kjell Bloch Sandved (born 1922) is a Norwegian born author, lecturer and nature photographer, most known for his Butterfly Alphabet which contains pictures of Butterfly Wings resembling all the 26 letters in the latin alphabet and the arabic numerals 0 to 9. [cite web
url =http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=509168&in_page_id=1965
title =Extraordinary pictures of the alphabet - spelled out on butterflies' wings
work = Daily Mail
date = 2008-01-18
archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5XjtHO1ee
archivedate = 2008-05-11]

Work in the USA

In 1960 he emigrated from Norway to USA, [cite web
url = http://www.butterflyalphabet.com/links/index.php?action=ny
title = New York Conservationist Magazine 2004
publisher = Butterfly Alphabet, Inc.
accessdate = 2008-05-11] and from then he worked in National Museum of Natural History for the Smithsonian Institution as an author and lecturer, now retired. [cite web
url = http://www.butterflyalphabet.com/contacts.html
title = Butterfly Alphabet, Inc.
publisher = Butterfly Alphabet, Inc.
accessdate = 2008-05-11] He currently employs Tim Nguyen-Gia, Production Executive at Montgomery Blair High School as his personal assistant and letter writer.Fact|date=September 2008

About his published works

Dexter Sear at Insects.org states that '"The Butterfly Alphabet" is a great example of cultural entomology.'. [cite web
url = http://www.insects.org/ced4/sandved.html
title = Cultural Entomology - Scaly Type
last = Sear
first = Dexter
work = insects.org
accessdate = 2008-05-11]

Cquote|To find beauty in the world, you have to look closely.|100px|20px|Kjell Sandved [cite web
url = http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/corp/features/kjell/mainIndex.shtml
title =KODAK: Close to Perfection
publisher = Eastman Kodak
accessdate = 2008-05-11 ]

The book "A World of Butterflies", with text by Brian Cassie and photographs by Kjell Sandved is described as an Cquote|features exquisite full-page pictures of 200 butterflies from around the world, accompanied by text that is authoritative and engaging, including essays on butterfly migration, butterflies and the environment, butterfly gardening, and watching and collecting butterflies.|100px|20px|Sonia Uyterhoeven [cite web
url = http://ww2.abc11tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8566259
title = Lepidopterist’s Delight: Butterflies in Your Garden
last = Uyterhoeven
first = Sonia
publisher = abc11.com
accessdate = 2008-06-28
archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5YtnXnzEa
archivedate = 2008-06-28] and his book "The world of music" is described by The Independent's Robert Fisk as "... a weighty heart attack of a book". [cite web
url = http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-thank-you-readers-for-these-gems-860514.html
title = Robert Fisk: Thank you, readers, for these gems
last = Fisk
first =Robert
authorlink = Robert Fisk
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publisher = The Independent
date = 2008-07-05
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archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5Z5w8x65i
archivedate = 2008-07-05
quote = I fumble for my massive, 2,239-page edition of the Norwegian K B Sandved's The World of Music, a weighty heart attack of a book ]

Published work

Some of the work published by Kjell B. Sandved
* cite book
last= Sandved
first= Kjell B.
authorlink= Kjell Bloch Sandved
coauthors= Brian Cassie (Author)
others= Robert Michael Pyle (Contributor)
title= A World Of Butterflies
origdate= 2004-05-05
publisher= Bulfinch Press
isbn= 978-0821228937
pages= 432 pages

* cite book
last= Sandved
first= Kjell B.
authorlink= Kjell Bloch Sandved
title= The Butterfly Alphabet
year=1996
month=03
publisher= Scholastic
isbn= 978-0590480031
pages= 64 pages

* cite book
last= Prance
first= Ghillean Tolmie
authorlink=Ghillean Prance
others= Photos by Kjell B. Sandved
title= Leaves; The Formation, Characteristics and Uses of Hundreds of Leaves in all Parts of the World
year=1985
publisher= Crown Publishers
location= New York
isbn= 9780517551523
pages= 244 pages

* cite book
last= Sandved
first= Kjell B.
authorlink=Kjell Bloch Sandved
others= Translated to Swedish by Tord Bæckström
title= Konstlexikon ("Art lexikon")
volume= I-II. A-L & M-Ö
year=1982
publisher= Kulturhistoriska förlaget
location= Stockholm
language= Swedish
pages= 2170 pages

* cite book
last= Sandved
first= Kjell B.
authorlink= Kjell Bloch Sandved
title= Butterflies
year=1977
month=03
publisher= Harry N Abrams
isbn= 978-0810920644
pages= 176 pages

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last= Sandved
first= Kjell B.
authorlink= Kjell Bloch Sandved
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editor= Kjell Bloch Sandved
others= Assosiate editors R. H. Hill and K. Claussen
title= The world of music, A treasury for listener and reader
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publisher= The Waverley Book Company Ltd.
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References

External links

* [http://www.butterflyalphabet.com/ Official site]

* cite web
url = http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/polycomm/pressrel/hubley/hubley0627.html
title = Yes, there is an 'F' in 'sphinx' – The image of a letter on the wing of a Sphinx moth led photographer – Kjell Sandved on a 24-year quest for the winged alphabet.
last = Hubley
first = Jack
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work = Lancaster Newspapers
publisher = Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
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accessdate = 2008-05-13
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* cite web
url = http://harpers.org/subjects/KjellBlochSandved
title = Sandved, Kjell Bloch (1922–) – On the wing By Kjell Bloch Sandved (Photog.)
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work = Harper's Magazine
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date = October 1989
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