September 23, 2013

When animals seem human.


Brookfield Zoo, June 1963. Many images depict animals in anthropomorphic poses. This was a subject that intrigued my Dad, and he often snapped pictures of zoo animals who looked uncannily human.

In those photographs, Dad captured animals naturally engaging in behaviors people associate with humans. That's a different category from photos in which someone stages animals to act as if they are humans.

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