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Museum snaps up 19th-century wildlife camera
Captions: The Kearton brothers would carry a stuffed ox around, put it close to birds' nests, crawl inside it and poke a lens out of its head; [Richard Kearton] and [Cherry Kearton] popularised wildlife photography for the Victorians and would go to hilarious extremes Photograph: Royal Photographic Society/Getty
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The Keartons by John Bevis review -- how nature photography relies on fakery
Birds don't stop still very often. Nests are their only clutter and the necessity to incubate eggs their only anchor; both are temporary ties to the fabric of the planet. Before camera technology could itself move fast enough to capture the speed of life, its early users sought fixed things to snap. So it was that in Boreham Wood on 10 April 1892, the brothers [Richard Kearton] and [Cherry Kearton] took the first ever photograph of a bird's nest in use. Richard found a song thrush's nest with a clutch of four eggs. \"I called out to Cherry,\" he wrote afterwards, \"come and let us see what sort of a fist you can make of this bird's nest with your old sun-picture apparatus.\" It is the Keartons' early bird photographs that remain their most original and which are still of most interest. [John Bevis]'s excellent book, informative and intelligent, beguiled and questioning, hinges on them. He is most interested in the evidence offered by the Keartons' work of how distortion, even fakery, is inevitable in any account of the natural world made by man. His subtitle has a double meaning: \"inventing nature photography\" might involve gardening a nightingale's nest to make it more photogenic; tethering a supposed wild lion in order to photograph it being attacked by Masai hunters; changing the sequence of pictures to tell the story as it ought to be told and not as it actually unfolded. Ever since the Keartons there has been reel nature (Gregg Mitman 's term) as well as real nature. The daisy gets its name from the \"day's eye\" and the Keartons worked their apertures under the same eye in the sky. They gathered the truth (all those birds' nests) but they also gardened it as they did so. Another pair of photographs from the brothers' behind-the-scenes series features a further hide (it allowed the Keartons to see the truth about the wryneck's beak). They are captioned \"Artificial tree-trunk open\" and \"Artificial tree-trunk closed\". Over and between these images of tree-trunks and daisies, the hidden and the seen, the innocent and the watchful, plays the history of nature photography and much more besides.
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Eating owt - Picture perfect
Punch magazine once said of Cherry, primarily the photographer, that no one had seen more animals since Noah. [David Attenborough] spoke of Cherry's passion. \"Certainly in terms of affecting his audience, including small boys like me, he was out there on his own. He colouredmy life in many ways. He was ahead of almost everybody.\" I'd walked it on Good Friday, 2004, with Swaledale's church folk, noted that Kisdon Hill was probably the sort of steep and rugged pathway which Mrs Willis had in mind when she wrote Father Hear the PrayerWe Offer. They were a good bunch. The headline, neat as [Bill Mitchell]'s biography, was Esprit de Corpse. What was to prove an excellent, good value lunch got off to a curious beginning. Listed starters included black pudding \"towered\" with onion rings, served on \"sticky oyster noodles\". There were no onion rings, no tower.
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In the Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton
Long reviews In the Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton written and illustrated by Rebecca Bond.
Book Review
In the Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton
Author-illustrator Bond offers a gracefully written picture-book biography of two pioneering nature photographers. Born in Yorkshire, England, in the nineteenth century, brothers [Richard] and [Cherry Kearton] grew up to work in publishing but their real work started as a lark: taking a photograph of a thrush's nest.
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I HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM: CHAPTER 3. THE THIRD QUARTER
England wins the World Cup (pg. 24-25). Mr Wilson visits Moscow again (pg. 25). The Russians refuse to mediate over Vietnam (pg. 25-27). Mr Cousins resigns over the wages policy (pg. 27-28). A major sterling crisis leads to a wages freeze (pg. 28-29). Mr Brown threatens to resign (pg. 29-30). Mr Brown becomes Foreign Secretary (pg. 30-33). Rhodesia, and Britain, get a final chance from the Commonwealth Premiers (pg. 33). The Liberal Party swings left (pg. 33-34).
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I HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM: CHAPTER 2. THE SECOND QUARTER
Parliament dissolved (pg. 12-13). A cautious Budget (pg. 13). The election campaign (pg. 13-14). Influence of opinion polls (pg. 14-15). The economy becomes the main issue (pg. 15). Conservatives seize the initiative (pg. 15). Mr Heath embarrassed by Enoch Powell (pg. 15-16). Newspaper strike (pg. 16). A startling election result (pg. 16-17). The new Cabinet (pg. 17-18). Fresh strife in Northern Ireland (pg. 18). Miss Devlin gaoled (pg. 18). Commonwealth Games threatened (pg. 18-19). South African cricket tour cancelled (pg. 19). Arms for South Africa becomes a major issue (pg. 19-22). Common Market negotiations open (pg. 22-23).
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