Published by Village Press in 1989, Jun Abe’s Creaturers marked the photographers first photobook of his career. Exhibiting the work at Picture Photo Space in Osaka in 1989, Abe’s Creaturers contains 42 black and white images which capture animals photographed from zoos, aquariums, and arboretums.

Was eine Katze tut, wenn sie fotografiert wird, kann man sich vorstellen: sie stellt die Schnurrhaare auf, putzt sich und legt sich in Positur. Aber ein Kamel, das mit hocherhobenem Kopf über eine Menschenmenge hinweg dem Fotografen zuzuzwinkern scheint? Stefan Moses hat aus seinem Archiv die schönsten Bilder über das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Tier ausgewählt. Seine zarten, aber nie kitschigen Bilder fügen sich zusammen mit ausgewählten Tiergedichten der Weltliteratur zu einem einzigartigen Band für jeden Tierliebhaber.

A childhood encounter with a crow at a zoo led to a lifetime fascination with avian life for the American artist Jim Dine. This encounter with the bird was perceived by the young Dine with a mixture of fear, fascination, and a deeper understanding of his unconscious world, and from it grew a mythic symbolism for the artist, which he explores in Birds, a series of remarkable black-and-white photographs. Here, an everyday, unspectacular bird might appear to the beholder as a character of mythology, as a jester at the medieval court, as a strange messenger from a world behind the scenes. These are rich, intimate, darkly detailed images imbued with symbolism and meaning.

"Images of dogs in the desert captured in the midst of running wildly after the car. Emphasising the grain of the image, these black and white photographs capture a haunting moment in which there is a duality between a sense of absence and presence. The behaviour of the dogs suggests a lack of previous stimuli, a loneliness, at the same time as an all-consuming reaction to the now, a presence."

Self-portraits of wildlife taken by a hidden camera with motion detector.

A cinematic photograph of Rome’s horse-mounted troops in ceremonial dress at night graces the cover of this artist’s book. Inside, a series of photographs show the martial steeds in their stables, preparing for a nocturnal respite.

A family capturing the beauty of their photogenic dog.

The first volume of THE FOREVER CAT, a found photo book of old photos of cats.