Of the 82 species featured in the book, only 23 are actually extinct. The remainder are either on the knife’s edge of disappearance or are conservation success stories, like the California condor, brought back from the brink.
he held in his hand — a species last seen in 1944 — could be found nowhere else in the world, outside of such assemblages.
The project initially had no specific aim, gradually morphed into a blog and eventually jelled into a book, “Extinction,” published in September. Of the Field’s holdings, only 1% are on public display. The other 99%, like the ivory-billed woodpecker, are kept in storage, a biological record of earth’s biodiversity that serves as a resource for researchers around the world, including, in the case of “Extinction,” a curious photographer.
The experience hinted at the immensity of the planet’s inhabitants and inspired Schlossman to study wildlife biology in college. He could well have wound up back at the Field as a staff member if he hadn’t picked up a camera and fallen in love with photography. With “Extinction,” Schlossman found a way to marry both passions.
As he set up his occasional makeshift photo studio among the specimen stacks at the Field, Schlossman found he had to build time into his workday for chats with staff. The challenge for Schlossman as a photographer was to find a way to reanimate and lend personality to creatures and organisms that were now inanimate objects. Apart from butterflies and insects, many had lost whatever color they once possessed, leaving him with a predominately gray and brown color palette. “Wet specimens,” preserved in liquid in jars, were difficult to shoot due to reflection from the glass.
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