Developing Animals

<div>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 <i>Developing Animals</i> 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.</div> <div><br> <i>Developing Animals</i> 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.</div> <div><br> By combining approaches in visual cultural studies and the history of photography <i>Developing Animals</i> 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.</div>