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From microscopic studies of flora to the grandest wildlife expeditions, photography has been our primary tool for observing and classifying the natural world. Luminous-Lint traces the history of nature photography from early scientific documentation to its role in modern conservation.

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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to nature photography
2Themes within nature
Nature as fabrication and illusion
3Props, accessories and novelties: Trees and stumps
4Dioramas in Natural History Museums
Processes
5Daguerreotypes: Nature
Photographers
6John Edward Saché: Studies of Indian insects
7Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein: Die gestielten crinoiden der Siboga-expedition (1907) [Sea stars - Crinoids]
8Eliot Porter: Colour
9Joseph Holmes: amnh (American Museum of Natural History)
10Nick Brandt: Inherit the Dust
Contemporary
11Contemporary examples of nature photography

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