Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: 1974-07
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.235940

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Animals / seals; stamped: Photo and Copyright by / Henning Christoph / 43 Essen / Feuerbachstrasse 5//7 / Germany / Tel.: (0201) 73 11 27 + 79 80 89 / Volksbank Essen 395 070 / Postscheckkonto Essen 1066 29-438 / NEG. NR C4450//18A [number handwritten]; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; typed label: C4450//18A…July 1974, North Germany / THE EUROPEAN SEAL…or Phoco vitulina, is threatened by pollution, hunting / and tourism. Only a cooperation between scientists, bathers, and hunters--/ and cleaning water in the part of the North Sea that is his home—can save / him from extinction.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ANIMALS / SEALS
Retouching: N