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10 January 2004

Life Through a Lens by Susan Snell and Polly Tucker, Natural History Museum, £15, ISBN 1588340198

Super Vision by Ivan Amato, Abrams, $40, ISBN 0810945452 Reviewed by Maggie McDonald

THE fascinating Life Through a Lens trawls through the photographic archives of London’s Natural History Museum. Susan Snell and Polly Tucker present a rich catch from carvings made of high explosives to a stuffed white tiger with its fans circa 1937. Ivan Amato’s Super Vision sticks to the modern view of the hidden world of nature and science. Here a rose petal looks like a mountain range, sticking tape mimics an…

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