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July 7, 2010
Phillip Prodger Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 320 pp.; 7 color ills.; 106 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780195150315)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.77

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In 1872, Victorian readers were presented with Charles Darwin’s Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. The work notably attempted to extend the great naturalist’s theory of evolution through natural selection to understanding the developmental history of expression. In support of Darwin’s attempt to provide evolutionary explanations for the physical manifestation of emotions, the book made considerable use of photographic material; and so it became one of the first scientific works to deploy the...