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Egg and Nest.(Book review)
Egg and Nest by Rosamond Purcell, Linnea S. Hall, Rene Corado. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
The three authors of this fascinating book are respectively a world-renowned photographer and writer; the executive director of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in Camarillo, California; and the collections manager of the same foundation. And while this volume is not an art book per se, it is a lively history of egg collecting, or Zoology. Thus it relates both to John James Audubon's work and to the enduring fascination with natural history that received tremendous impetus during the nineteenth century--indeed, many of Purcell's photographs are of specimens from the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology's vast trove of private collections assembled by innumerable Victorian bird enthusiasts.
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The photographs, both those taken under laboratory conditions and those taken in the wild, are extraordinary, showing the variety of egg sizes, shapes, patterns, and textures: ...
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