Portrait of Niko and Elisabeth Tinbergen
Date
1969
Sitter
Elisabeth (Lies) Amélie Tinbergen (1912 - 1990) , née Rutten, Chemist
Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907 - 1988, Dutch) , Ethologist
Creator
Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
Subject
Description
Full-length portrait of Niko and Elisabeth Tinbergen filming animal tracks on the beach, Walney Island, Cumbria. Niko is operating a cine-camera on the left and Elisabeth kneels on the sand to the right as viewed.
One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer at the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group’s Walney Island Field Camp.
Nikolaas Tinbergen, (1907–1988), Dutch authority on animal behaviour and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1973, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962.
Elisabeth (Lies) Amélie Tinbergen, née Rutten, (1912-1990), chemist.
Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976
Colour transparency of Niko Tinbergen and Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.
One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer at the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group’s Walney Island Field Camp.
Nikolaas Tinbergen, (1907–1988), Dutch authority on animal behaviour and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1973, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962.
Elisabeth (Lies) Amélie Tinbergen, née Rutten, (1912-1990), chemist.
Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976
Colour transparency of Niko Tinbergen and Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.
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