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Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography - Softcover

Brower, Matthew

 
9780816654796: Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816654794 ISBN 13: 9780816654796
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2011

Synopsis

Pictures of animals are now ubiquitous, but the ability to capture animals on film was a significant challenge in the early era of photography. In Developing Animals, Matthew Brower takes us back to the time when Americans started taking pictures of the animal kingdom, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the moment when photography became a mass medium and wildlife photography an increasingly popular genre.

Developing Animals compellingly investigates the way photography changed our perception of animals. Brower analyzes how photographers created new ideas about animals as they moved from taking pictures of taxidermic specimens in so-called natural settings to the emergence of practices such as camera hunting, which made it possible to capture images of creatures in the wild.

By combining approaches in visual cultural studies and the history of photography, Developing Animals goes further to argue that photography has been essential not only to the understanding of wildlife but also to the conceptual separation of humans and animals.

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About the Author

Matthew Brower is curator of the University of Toronto Art Centre and a lecturer in museum studies in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816654794
ISBN 13 
9780816654796
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256