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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458689503321

Autore

Brower Matthew <1971->

Titolo

Developing animals [[electronic resource] ] : wildlife and early American photography / / Matthew Brower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010

ISBN

1-4529-4619-1

0-8166-7496-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

778.9/32

Soggetti

Wildlife photography - United States

Human-animal relationships - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: Capturing Animals; CHAPTER 1 A Red Herring: The Animal Body, Representation, and Historicity; CHAPTER 2 Camera Hunting in America; CHAPTER 3 The Photographic Blind; CHAPTER 4 The Appearance of Animals: Abbott Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt, and Concealing-Coloration; CONCLUSION: Developing Animals; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 fr