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Date
May 1, 2010 – June 5, 2010
- Time Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
- Location Bonn, Germany
- Price
Inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888
Photograph by George Shiras III
The Pervasive View: Vintage Prints From the National Geographic Image Collection features over 60 unique vintage black-and-white prints dating from the earliest days of the Society in the 1880s through the 1940s. Half of these images have never been published or seen outside of the Image Collection archive, housed at the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C.
National Geographic photographers brought the world home to millions of readers. Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden portrayed the classicized youth of Sicily; Herbert Ponting documented Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole; George Shiras III made the earliest images of wildlife by flash; Joseph Rock led National Geographic research expeditions into China; Alexander Graham Bell made photographs of his flight experiments; Captain Frank Hurley and A. B. Lewis documented the dress of the natives of Papua New Guinea in the 1920s; and Geologist Willis Lee photographed the magnificent domes and caves of the desolate Carlsbad Caverns in 1924. The work of these and other pioneers can be seen in this exploration of the Geographic’s—and photography’s—early history.
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
1026 Queen Street West
Bonn, Germany, HIDE
M6J 1H6
Telephone: +1 416 504 0575
Lat/Lon: 43.644038399999999, -79.419773800000002
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