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
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Dimensions
width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
Subject
Description
Full-length portrait of Niko and Elizabeth (Lies) Tinbergen filming animal tracks, Walney Island, Cumbria. Niko is operating a cine-camera on the right as viewed and Elizabeth is crouched down to the left holding a specimen with measure to the camera.
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
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
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