{"id":1833,"date":"2016-12-07T23:18:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library-beta2\/?page_id=1833"},"modified":"2016-12-07T23:18:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:18:15","slug":"guravich-photography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/departments\/archives-museum\/guides-to-the-collection\/manuscript-collections\/mccormick-collection\/guravich-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Guravich Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][heading]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Guravich Photography \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/departments\/archives-museum\/guides-to-the-collection\/manuscript-collections\/mccormick-collection\/\">Back to collection home <\/a><\/p>\n[\/heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<div id=\"two-cols-content\">\n<p>Dr. Dan Guravich earned his Ph.D. in plant genetics. From an early age he combined his love of science with his love of photography. During an assignment as official photographer for the historic voyage of the S.S. Manhattan through the Northwest Passage, Dan saw a polar bear. It was love at first sight.<\/p>\n<p>Dan spent the next 25 years of his life capturing these majestic creatures on film. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/dan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1835 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/dan-300x254.png\" alt=\"dan\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/dan-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/dan-768x651.png 768w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/dan-142x120.png 142w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/12\/dan.png 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>contributed the photography for five books on polar bears as well as a large number of articles in various magazines and journals. \u00a0In 1992, Dan founded an organization,\u00a0<b>Polar Bears Alive<\/b>, dedicated to world-wide protection of the animal.\u00a0In addition, he published a polar bear calendar each year since 1990 until his death in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Box : LP Records, Calendars, Guravich Photography<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMississippi This is your song\u201d record, cover art by Franke Keating<br \/>\nWilliam Faulkner\u2019s A Rose for Emily record<br \/>\nGood Ole Cons, The Parchman band record<br \/>\nDave Gardner record<br \/>\nMississippi State College on Record<br \/>\nMississippi Blues Calendar by Dick Waterman, 2005<br \/>\nWild and Scenic Mississippi Calendar, 2003<br \/>\nPolar Bears by Dan Guravich Calendar, 1998<br \/>\nFour Photographs of wildlife by Dan Guravich<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This page is just a small component of sub-series IV (Material Collections) of the McCormick collection. To view the collection in its entirety please visit Delta State University Archives and Museum in Cleveland, Mississippi or for more information please contact the Delta State Archives at 662.846.4780<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][heading] Guravich Photography \u00b7 Back to collection home [\/heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text] Dr&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"parent":1728,"menu_order":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1833","page","type-page","status-publish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1833\/revisions\/1836"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}