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[Cookie the Chimpanzee with boy on a tricycle, Bronx Zoo, New York]

Date 1943 (printed 2012)
Location Bronx New York United States
Dimensions Image: 10 x 9 5/8 in. (25.4 x 24.4 cm)
Print medium Photo-Digital-Inkjet


Cookie, a young chimpanzee in the Bronx Zoo, was a popular photographic subject in the early 1940s. After receiving a box camera loaded with film, Cookie became a celebrated amateur photographer in her own right, whose images were reproduced in various magazines and journals. Vishniac’s fascination with and appreciation for animals, and his passion for photographing them, can be seen in hundreds of unprinted negatives from early 1920s Europe to late 1960s America. The Vishniac family even had a pet monkey, Jackie, in their Berlin apartment.

Copyright

© Mara Vishniac Kohn

Credit line

International Center of Photography

Feedback Accession No. 2012.80.38