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Published
Newsouth, February 2019
ISBN
9781742236209
Format
Softcover, 192 pages
Dimensions
25.9cm × 20.3cm × 1.7cm

Capturing Nature Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum, 1857-1893

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Trade Illustration Selection in the 2020 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show

SHORTLISTED for Australian Book Design Awards 2020

Best Designed Nonfiction Book (inc. Scholarly and References)

Highly Commended in the AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards, Best Medium Exhibition Catalogue category

The groundbreaking scientific photographs of AustralianMuseum curator Gerard Krefft and taxidermist Henry Barnes are revealed for thefirst time.

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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