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Animals in photographs

by Arpad Kovacs

This collection of eighty images from the J. Paul Getty Museum traces the history of animal representation in photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It examines the impact of evolving camera and film technology on the medium.

Accession 31817 ISBN 9781606064412 Publisher J. Paul Getty Museum
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