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A Van Dyke Brown is a type of photographic print made by sandwiching a large negative between a sheet of glass and a sheet of paper coated with silver nitrate and ferric salts, exposing it to the sun, washing it, and then fixing it with a weak alkaline solution. The resulting image borrows its name from a chestnutty oil pigment named in turn after a 17th-century Flemish painter.
A Gerenuk is a type of East African antelope with a long neck, small head, and enormous eyes and ears. It feeds, as you can see, by standing straight up on its hind legs and munching on the sweet, tender leaves and shoots that grow on the thorny bushes and trees in the arid steppes where it lives. The Gerenuk was given its name—which, as far as I know, it does not share with any other animate or inanimate competitor, from the Somali people who live with it.
A Van Dyke Brown showing two Gerenuks is a type of treasure: rich, brown, and mysterious.
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