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Autore: |
Brower Matthew <1971->
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Titolo: |
Developing animals [[electronic resource] ] : wildlife and early American photography / / Matthew Brower
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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
Disciplina: | 778.9/32 |
Soggetto topico: | Wildlife photography - United States |
Human-animal relationships - United States - History - 19th century | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Developing animals ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4529-4619-1 |
0-8166-7496-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791591003321 |
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