Barbara Baran: Natural Histories
First exhibited at Impressions Gallery of Photography, York, 1983.

"... animals are always the observed. The fact that they can observe us has lost all significance. They are the objects of our ever-extending knowledge. What we know about them is an index of our power, and thus an index of what separates us from them. The more we know, the further away they are ... The image of a wild animal becomes the starting-point of a daydream: a point from which the day-dreamer departs with his back turned."
From John Berger: Why Look at Animals?, 1977

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Selected works:

Carnivores, Natural History Museum, London 1983

Dugong, Natural History Museum, London 1983

Wildlife in Danger, Natural History Museum, London 1983

Birds of Prey, Natural History Museum, London 1983

The Living Coelacanth, Natural History Museum, London 1983

Defences of Animals, Horniman Museum, London 1983

Large Mammal Gallery (I), Tring Zoological Museum, 1983

Large Mammal Gallery (II), Tring Zoological Museum, 1983

Defences of Animals: Horns and Antlers (detail), Horniman Museum, London 1983

Tiger of '26, Keil's Antiques, London 1983

Cedric's Natural History Shop (I), London 1983

Cedric's Natural History Shop (II), London 1983

Swimming (Mammalia), Hunterian Museum, London 1983

Locomotion in Air (Vertebrata), Hunterian Museum, London 1983

The Human Embryo (detail), Hunterian Museum, London 1983


Photographs copyright © Barbara Baran
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