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- Night Procession
- Stephen Gill
- Nobody Books
- 2020
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- Nekopathy
- Masayuki Nakaya
- Zen Foto Gallery
- 2011
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- Mynas
- Robert Zhao Renhui
- The Institute of Critical Zoologists
- 2016
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- Murder
- Guillaume Simoneau
- MACK
- 2019
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- MOLE UNIT No.8 Street Cats
- Yamauchi Michio
- Mole
- 1999
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- Misao the Big Mama and Fukumaru the Cat
- Miyoko Ihara
- Little More
- 2011
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- Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central and South America, A Study in Beauty and Diversity
- Emmet Gowin
- Princeton University Press
- 2017
American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) is best known for his portraits of his wife, Edith, and their family, as well as for his images documenting the impact of human activity upon landscapes around the world. For the past fifteen years, he has been engaged in an equally profound project on a different scale, capturing the exquisite beauty of more than one thousand species of nocturnal moths in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Panama.
These stunning color portraits present the insects—many of which may never have been photographed as living specimens before, and some of which may not be seen again—arrayed in typologies of twenty-five per sheet. The moths are photographed alive, in natural positions and postures, and set against a variety of backgrounds taken from the natural world and images from art history.
Throughout Gowin’s distinguished career, his work has addressed urgent concerns. The arresting images of Mariposas Nocturnas extend this reach, as Gowin fosters awareness for a part of nature that is generally left unobserved and calls for a greater awareness of the biodiversity and value of the tropics as a universally shared natural treasure. An essay by Gowin provides a fascinating personal history of his work with biologists and introduces both the photographic and philosophical processes behind this extraordinary project.→more -
- L'Intérieur de la nuit
- George Shiras
- Editions Xavier Barral
- 2015
A keen observer of the animal world and a pioneer of wildlife photography, George Shiras was also the first, at the turn of the 20th century, to reveal the nocturnal lives of forest animals through surprising flash photographs. From mobile shots on his canoe to photographic tricks he developed (when the animal triggers itself the shot by running into a thread), he was able to capture deers, lynx, porcupines, and various birds.
This monographic premiere in an intimist format presents a selection of these photographs, enhanced by a poetic essay by philosopher and writer Jean-Christophe Bailly.
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- Kuragari
- Masaru Tatsuki
- self published
- 2013
In ancient times, beast and man co-existed in the darkness. These photographs tap into our collective ancestral memories.
"I can sense someone's eyes looking at me from somewhere unknown.
So I stop and shine my light into the darkness. It is a deer.
Its presence, standing there, is imposing. The deer is looking over at me. It seems to perceive my fear.
Slowly my anxiety begins to ease and I begin to feel accepted into the nighttime forest."
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- Inhabitants
- Andrea Buzzichelli
- Urbanautica Books
- 2017
This publication stems from a photographic survey conducted by Andrea Buzzichelli during 2015 in the National Park of Casentinesi Forests, Italy. Starting from the collection of archival materials made by the National Forest Service and the Canilupus association for wildlife monitoring, the Tuscan photographer creates his vision expresses of the forest and the animal life that lives there. These images, not at all descriptive, catapult the gaze into a forbidden, mysterious, and obscure imaginary world. The boundary between the acquired and built image is erased. The casual bestiary produced by photo traps blends with the artist’s introspective views of nature and vegetation. The project as a whole expresses a sense of intrusive power in an otherwise unviable world, as well as a voyeuristic approach to nature. Upon careful viewing, the book ‘Inhabitants’ reveals the humanness of its very nature; of an anthropocentric posture eradicated and sometimes extraneous to the environment. With no particular reference to time, the author carries us into a dimension that has to do more with feeling than seeing. It’s in this “blind” perspective that Buzzichelli realizes his homage to the pioneering work of George Shiras III.
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- In Almost Every Picture #9
- Erik Kessels
- KesselsKramer
- 2010
A family struggling with one of the biggest mysteries in photography: How to shoot my black dog?
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- In Almost Every Picture #8
- Hironori Akutagawa
- KesselsKramer
- 2009
A Japanese rabbit whose unusually flat head made it ideal for balancing objects.
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- In Almost Every Picture #5
- Erik Kessels
- KesselsKramer
- 2006
A family capturing the beauty of their photogenic dog.
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- In Almost Every Picture #3
- Erik Kessels
- KesselsKramer
- 2004
Self-portraits of wildlife taken by a hidden camera with motion detector.
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- Humpelfuchs
- Bastian Thiery
- Self published
- 2018
"Humpelfuchs" is a self-published book, about a nightly encounter with a limping fox in Bastian Thiery's neighborhood.
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