Marian Drew is often contacted by people interested in giving her dead animals. Blame it on Drew’s elaborate still-life studies of dead animals (mostly roadkill) called “Still Life /Australian ...

First, you’ve got to know that there’s a Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation in Austin ... you can see the current exhibition, “The Still Life,” of artworks by the resident stuffies.

Once photographers had moved beyond the painterly still life they soon found that, in photography, the closer you got the more majestic became the compositions. Ansel Adams, the great recorder of ...