Self portrait of Niko Tinbergen
Date
1969
Sitter
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
Caricature of Niko Tinbergen, fashioned out of a piece of teardrop-shaped driftwood and painted with single eye, lopsided toothy grin and cigarette. It is further embellished with frowning brow and wiry white hair. Photographed in an exterior setting on a wooden pedestal and against a brick wall.
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.
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.
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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