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Wong features photographer and filmmaker Jean Painleve. After studying biology at the Sorbonne, Painleve set up a studio on the coast of Brittany in 1925 where he used microscopes to capture close-ups of crabs, octopuses and sea urchins that belie their true size. Admired by many on the Paris avant-garde art scene, Painleve showed that the natural world was a source of images and tales just as bizarre and shocking as anything Dada and surrealism could offer. Painleve was also a pioneer of underwater photography, encasing his camera in a rudimentary waterproof box to make films. He didn't shy away from using anthropomorphism and humor to help his audience relate to the lives of animals. He also championed the use of film in scientific research
