“Darwin’s contribution to many fields of science, from evolution to geology to botany, are well-known — but it turns out he was also a seminal figure in the history of visual culture.”
Brain Pickings takes a look at photography curator Phillip Prodger’s Darwin’s Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution. The book centers on the images of human emotion in Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, and how they changed the way “images are seen and made.”
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