Animal Afterlives

Murphy, Alexandra (2021) Animal Afterlives. [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract

Natural history museums display and store preserved animals in such a way that they, at first glance, appear to be living, but in reality they are lifeless and fixed in position. When these specimens are photographed, their stillness becomes further frozen in time. Alexandra Murphy has photographed different taxidermy specimen collections in UK and US museums, in an exploration of the photograph’s relationship with preservation, representation, life and death, past and present. The works in the exhibition explore a range of different photographic methods and materials from retouched digital photographs, prints embedded in resin and nineteenth-century photographic processes to produce the salted paper print and carte-de-visite albumen print.

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Keywords:	Photography, Natural History, Taxidermy
Depositing User:	RED Unit Admin
Date Deposited:	22 Oct 2021 08:39
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2021 11:56
URI:	https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/18456

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