Matthew Brower

• Programs and Governance Officer at University of Toronto

This chapter examines the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition and exhibition through the lens of temporality. It explores the effects of changing conceptions of nature brought about by the climate emergency on the genre of wildlife photography. In its classical formulation, wildlife photography has been taken to provide access to a natura...

This article explores the implications of photographic affect for curatorial practice by examining the exhibition Through The Body: Lens-Based Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists (Art Museum at University of Toronto, 2014). The author focuses on the curatorial task of situating the work of three of the artists, Chen Zhe, Fan Xi and Chun Hua...

Pictures of animals are now ubiquitous, but the ability to capture animals on film was a significant challenge in the early era of photography. This book takes us back to the time when Americans started taking pictures of the animal kingdom, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the moment when photography became a mass medium and wildlife pho...

This article examines the circulation of George Shiras 3rd's Midnight Series of deer photographs. The photographs were taken in 1896 as part of Shiras's experiments with night‐time flash photography and were part of the North American practice of camera hunting. The article traces the photograph's circulation from their display at the 1900 Paris Ex...

This essay examines the relationship between the display of non-human animal trophies and masculinity through an analysis of progressive-era American wildlife photography. In the 1890s, North American animal photographers began circulating their images in sporting journals and describing their practice as a form of hunting. These camera hunters exh...

The absence of human figures in wildlife art is questioned through a meditation on the work of Robert Bateman. Bateman’s reception, his denigration and valorization, are examined in relation to this absence of the human, which is related to an erasure of history that raises the question of the political ramifications of wildlife art.

Typescript (photocopy). Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Visual and Cultural Studies Program, 2005. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 360-395).