Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: 1972-08
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.238959

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Seagulls / in flight; stamped: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this / print. / Prints must be returned / afte¬r use. / Black Star, Library; stamped: Photo and Copyright by / Henning Christoph / 43 Essen / Feuerbachstrasse 5//7 / Germany / Tel.: / Buro: (0 21 41) 73 11 27 / Privat: / Konto: Volksbank Essen 395 070 / Negative Nr. C1938//18 [number handwritten]; stamped: This photograph may not / be reproduced without / permission of: / Black Star publishing / 450 Park Avenue South / New York, N.Y. 10016; stamped: NEGS NOT IN FILE; stamped: BLACK STAR; typed label: C 1938//18 / RUTLAND ISLAND…As soon as Hugh McCole and his sister Brigid / move away, the small island will be left to grazing animals and / sea gulls. An old Irish superstition maintains that the souls / of Irish who emigrated to America often return after their death / in the form of gulls. (Aug. ’72)

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BIRDS / BIRDS MISCELLANEOUS.
Retouching: N