L.A.’s Insects Are Hairy, Iridescent, and Crazy Photogenic

Lisa Gonzalez is the kind of photographer who knows how to make her subjects look good. It involves a bit of fussing and preening, maybe some artful arranging of limbs. When her sitters look a little shriveled, she rehydrates them; when they’re unkempt, she grooms them. Gonzalez’s task is complicated by the fact that some of her subjects are smaller than a grain of rice. Sometimes she has to use a brush with a single bristle. Gonzalez is an assistant collections manager of entomology at the Natural History Museum of…

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