NZP Photographer Jessie Cohen and Mopie
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Object Details
- Date
- 1992
- Author
- Tinsley, Jeffrey Wayne 1947-2017
- Subject
- Cohen, Jessie
- Mopie (Gorilla)
- National Zoological Park (U.S.)
- National Zoological Park (U.S.) Great Ape House
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Notes
- Featured in Torch, March 1992
- Summary
- National Zoo Photographer, Jessie Cohen, and gorilla friend, Mopie, share a reflective moment in the Great Ape House at the National Zoological Park. Of all her many interests, Cohen says that shooting portraits of animals in repose and in action is her favorite thing to do.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: March 1992
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- Topic
- Animals
- Photography
- Women
- Zoos--Employees
- Photographers
- Gorilla
- Primates
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Standard number
- 92-988-25
- Type
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
- Animal, candid
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Animal, candid; Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Metadata Usage
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10158