DEVELOPING ANIMALS: EARLY NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY
How the emergence of wildlife photography changed the way we think about animals
Developing Animals takes us back to the time when Americans started taking pictures of the animal kingdom, investigating how photography changed our perception of animals. Combining approaches in visual cultural studies and the history of photography, Matthew Brower argues that photography has been essential not only to the understanding of wildlife but also to the conceptual separation of humans and animals.
University of Minnesota Press
REVIEWS
Jon Davies, “Matthew Brower, Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography,” RACAR, 36.2, 2011, 80-83.
Thomas R. Dunlap, “Review, Developing Animals: Wildlife and Early American Photography,” Environmental History, 16, October 2011, 718-19.
Scott Anderson, “Still Life,” UofT Magazine, Summer 2011, 20.
Uncredited review, “Developing Animals,” Midwest Book Review, May 13, 2011.