Tag: TAXIDERMY
Joanna Ebenstein is petite, soft-spoken and bookish. She’s also a woman who traffics in death. “I don’t actually think it’s morbid at all to think about death,” she says. “I think it’s really weird not to.” ANIMAL recently visited Ebenstein’s Morbid Anatomy museum, which she founded and curates in Gowanus section of Brooklyn. Ebenstein, 42, […]
People who choose to devote their lives to manicuring and preserving creepy animal corpses are fascinating. Photographer Mike McGregor, who grew up surrounded by stuffed animalia and sport-hunting, explores the relationship between taxidermists and their mounts in his photo series Preserve, as highlighted by Wired. While his subjects (all shot in their northeastern U.S. businesses) seem like a pretty […]
After years of experimenting, Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs have successfully built a unique series of cameras made from the taxidermed bodies of armadillos and tortoises. And they work! The ongoing project “Camera Collection” investigates the physical body of a camera and the impression it leaves on the light that goes through it […]
On Thursday, AMC will unveil its newest reality series, Immortalized. It’s a show about about taxidermy and the first episode will star local Brooklyn hero, Takeshi Yamada. We first encountered Dr. Yamada this past summer while filming the Coney Island edition of ANIMAL’s neighborhood spotlight series, “What Are You Doing Tonight?”. The dapperly dressed gentleman […]
