Portrait of Niko Tinbergen and Barbara MacRoberts
Date
1969
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Creator
Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Photographer
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Dimensions
width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
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Description
Three-quarter length portrait of Barbara MacRoberts and Niko Tinbergen next to a large wooden hide on Walney Island, Cumbria. Tinbergen holds the entrance open as MacRoberts walks out wearing a balaclava-style hat and holding binoculars.
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.
Barbara MacRoberts, botanist, animal behaviourist and research officer to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.
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.
Barbara MacRoberts, botanist, animal behaviourist and research officer to the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.
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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