Charlotte Cory's "Visitors" are truly creatures of fantasy and
fascination - each so delicately posed that we think "can that be
real?" A noble tiger in full military regalia, a dejected donkey
slumped in a chair in a sparse studio setting, and a haughty
kangaroo holding a cricket bat and gazing out at us dismissively.
What kind of extraordinary creatures are these? Cory's images
rework cartes de visite, the photographic visiting cards that were
a Victorian craze. Many millions were produced and are now so
commonly discarded in junk shops that they are almost worthless.Can
there be anything more poignant than a person got up in their best
bib and tucker, preserved for a posterity that is no longer
interested? Yet there is something assuredly sadder than discarded
photographs of forgotten faces and family pets: all those stuffed
animals in museums, shot long ago not on glass plates but with
guns, their very bodies preserved for posterity to gawk at. Where
did this moth-eaten lion sniff his last antelope? How many of us
have stood with our noses pressed to the glass eyeing these
captured creatures? "The Visitors" is a remarkable book that draws
us into an imagined world of immense power and originality.
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