Book ID: CBB620330194

Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893 (2019)

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Finney, Vanessa (Author)


NewSouth Books


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 192
Language: English

In the mid-nineteenth century, scientists around the world were quick to see photography’s huge potential for capturing fleeting moments of life, death, and discovery. At the Australian Museum, curator Gerard Krefft and taxidermist Henry Barnes began to experiment with the revolutionary new art form, preparing and staging their specimens—from whales and giant sunfish to lifelike lyre bird scenes and fossils—and documenting them in thousands of arresting images. Capturing Nature reveals these groundbreaking photographs for the first time, along with the Australian Museum’s urgent quest to become more scientific in its practices.

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Review Jan Brazier (2019) Review of "Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893". Historical Records of Australian Science (pp. 195-196). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Van Leeuwen, Michael
Anaïs Mauuarin
Crane, Rosi
Kathleen Davidson
M. M. Chandler
White, Laura
Concepts
Taxidermy
Museums
Natural history
Photography
Specimens
Exhibits
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Australia
Great Britain
New Zealand
Lisbon (Portugal)
Queensland (Australia)
Spain
Institutions
Australian Museum
Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro
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