ERNEST B. SCHOEDSACK (1893-1979)

Lah Dah, Nah and Water Buffalo, Siam, 1927

Details

ERNEST B. SCHOEDSACK (1893-1979)
Lah Dah, Nah and Water Buffalo, Siam, 1927
gelatin silver print
notations (in the negative); annotation and date in pencil (on the mount); date and (an)notations in ink, credit, title, date stamps, credit and caption on collection label affixed (on the reverse of the mount)
image: 9¼ x 7in. (23.6 x 16cm.)
mount: 12 x 9in. (23.6 x 18cm.)

Literature

National Geographic magazine, August 1927, p. 660.
National Geographic Image Collection, National Geographic Society, 2009, p. 136.

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Lot Essay

Ernest B. Schoedsack, a successful director during the Golden Age of Hollywood, took this photo in Thailand while gathering material for his next movie Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927). The National Geographic Society hired Schoedsack to write several illustrated articles for the magazine while on location in Thailand.

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