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Books and Arts
Nature 439, 791 (16 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439791a; Published online 15 February 2006
Exhibition: Classifying the past
Alexis Clements
The photograph of artist Mark Dion included in his latest exhibition, Microcosmographia, is strikingly similar to one of the American naturalist William Beebe taken in 1917. This is no accident: Dion's adoption of the attitudes and methods of such early naturalists is very deliberate.
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