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A certain tranquility and focus inhabit the photographs of dead animals Thomas Struth took in the autopsy room of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research. The institution is dedicated to research on the human influence on our environment and examines the exact cause of death of recently deceased animals, most of which are brought in from the animal park in eastern Berlin. In his images, Struth documents that transitory moment immediately after death, when life still seems to cling to the bodies of these animals.
A white-tailed eagle lies on its back, wings spread akimbo, head …