taxidermy treasures

Tags: , , , , , — by meredith on April 9, 2007 @ 1:54 pm

Justine Cooper spent a year exploring and photographing the vast mothballed collections in storage (since the 19th century) at the Museum of Natural History. If you have any sort of appreciation for animal-heads-on-plaques or dinosaur remains or sealife in formaldehyded jars (as I do, of course) you simply must check out her work for the “Saved by Science” installation at the Daneyal Mahmood gallery:

birds in storage

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  1. You really really must do an ebay search for “taxidermy.” Last night I stumbled upon 2 high 5ing monkeys.

    Comment by Calamity J. — April 22, 2007 @ 1:27 pm

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