Bernd Behr, Akeley Inside the Elephant

<div><i>Akeley Inside the Elephant</i> is a research</div><div>project on sprayed concrete, a process</div><div>used in the tunnelling and mining industries,</div><div>and the provenance it shares with the</div><div>histories of cinematography and natural</div><div>history dioramas through its inventor, the</div><div>American taxidermist Carl E. Akeley (1864–</div><div>1926). Reconsidering this industrial process</div><div>of the built environment as critically</div><div>entangled with Akeley’s pioneering work</div><div>at natural history museums in Chicago and</div><div>New York in the early 20th-century and his</div><div>subsequent development of a novel 35mm</div><div>cine camera for field recordings in Africa, the</div><div>project highlights this historical juncture as</div><div>contributing to an expanded discourse on</div><div>photographic ontology.</div>