Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
The photographs span the years 1870 to 2004. Some were taken of birds and mammals in zoos or aviaries, others were taken in the wild, often in remote places. Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken.
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