Creature by New York-based photographer Andrew Zuckerman, is a beautiful coffee table book featuring 150 studio portraits of animals. Filled with emotive images from one of the world’s most renowned animal photographers, Zuckerman has created studio portraiture of just about every creature you could imagine. Photographed against a stark white background, these bare portraits are both mesmerizing and incredibly sad.
While reading Creature (or more accurately looking at the pictures), I couldn’t help but think of the proverb “God so loved the birds, he invented the trees. Man so loved the bird, he invented the cage”. Nowhere is this sentiment more actualized than in Andrew Zuckerman’s work. Obviously this talented photographer has a gift to see animals clearly, but for some reason he chooses to ignore the circumstances of their lives to focus solely on the singular moment of the animal’s existence that he captures on film.
Unfortunately, the animals photographed in this book were taken in cages from some form of captivity, into a studio in New York where they were photographed with bright studio lights and stark flash. Perhaps this is why, when you look, really look, at the vivid images in Creature, you can see that a few of the animals look curious, but mostly just frightened and unhappy.
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Visit: http://www.creaturebook.com/
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Pages: 300
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