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Yvette Borup Andrews (February 28, 1891 – April 12, 1959) was an American photographer associated with the American Museum of Natural History. With the museum's director, Roy Chapman Andrews, she traveled to Central Asia twice during 1916-18 for the museum's First and Second Asiatic Zoological Expeditions.
Feb 1, 2019 · Although often overshadowed by the escapades of her more famous husband (said by some to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones), the photographs taken by Yvette Borup Andrews on their first expeditions through Central Asia stand today as a compelling contribution to early visual anthropology.
Jan 29, 2018 · by ASMP | Jan 29, 2018 | Current News. Image © Yvette Borup Andrews. Editor’s Note: In 1914, Yvette Borup Andrews took off with her new husband (Roy Chapman Andrews, a model for Indiana Jones), as the chief photographer on an “eighteen-month First Asiatic Zoological Expedition to China, Tibet, and Burma.”. Yvette Andrews thus became one ...
Jan 10, 2018 · By Lydia Pyne. Although often overshadowed by the escapades of her more famous husband (said by some to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones), the photographs taken by Yvette Borup Andrews on their first expeditions through Central Asia stand today as a compelling contribution to early visual anthropology.
Feb 25, 2018 · Yvette Borup Andrews started the Central Asia expedition with her husband as a honeymoon, one funded by the American Museum of Natural History, the 'First Asiatic Zoological Expedition". This meant exploring the territories of China, Tibet, and Burma, led by her naturalist husband Roy Chapman Andrews, with her as the official photographer. A ...
1911. February. Yvette Borup Andrews: First Asiatic Zoological Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. In 1891, Yvette Borup was born to Mary Brandreth and Col. Henry Borup in Paris, France¹. Though both parents were American, Borup would spent the majority of her early life in Europe, as her father was a military attache in ...
Nevertheless, Andrews and his wife Yvette Borup Andrews made the decision to continue and sailed from San Francisco on March 28, 1916 en route to Japan. Andrews would take the role of general director and big-game hunter and Yvette, as a trained photographer, would act as expedition photographer.
