Phil
27th May 2016, 04:24 AM
Trust the French to publish a book with a title like that, but whether you love the fluffy wee things or not, it is packed full of damn good photographs of Cats.
They're by a ton of great photographers too - you run from Beaton and Capa, through Steichen, Lartique, C-B, Erwitt, Duncan, Eisenstaedt et al, and a fair number of European photographers who I confess to never having heard of.
It's really rather a unique book, beautifully printed (OK there is a bit of guttering here and there, which I hate, but it is nothing to complain about).
Published by Editions Flammarion, and compiled and edited by Jules Farber - ISBN 2-0803-0496-8. Seem to be plenty around secondhand, though none at the fiver I got it for in Oxfam :)
It's not going to teach you anything, but if, like me, you've always found it a struggle to photograph any animal, and if you just like looking at photographs anyway, it's a very pleasant way to while away some time. Oh and I should say, it isn't just a photo book of fluffy creatures in cute poses . . the choice of photographs and the class of the photographers lends it a real air of gravitas!
They're by a ton of great photographers too - you run from Beaton and Capa, through Steichen, Lartique, C-B, Erwitt, Duncan, Eisenstaedt et al, and a fair number of European photographers who I confess to never having heard of.
It's really rather a unique book, beautifully printed (OK there is a bit of guttering here and there, which I hate, but it is nothing to complain about).
Published by Editions Flammarion, and compiled and edited by Jules Farber - ISBN 2-0803-0496-8. Seem to be plenty around secondhand, though none at the fiver I got it for in Oxfam :)
It's not going to teach you anything, but if, like me, you've always found it a struggle to photograph any animal, and if you just like looking at photographs anyway, it's a very pleasant way to while away some time. Oh and I should say, it isn't just a photo book of fluffy creatures in cute poses . . the choice of photographs and the class of the photographers lends it a real air of gravitas!