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Why We Photograph Animals
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Exploring the entangled relationships between humans and other animals, this visual anthology will reframe your understanding of how we photograph animals and show you why photographing them matters to us and the planet
A compelling visual anthology of one of photography's most popular subjects, reframing our understanding of why we photograph animals and why photographing them matters to us and the planet.
A visual overview of the history and future of animal photography, Why We Photograph Animals encourages us to think and rethink the way we have looked at - and used - animals and to consider our future relationships with non-human species.
Multi-stranded, this book features the work of more than 100 photographers supported by thematic essays that provide historical context; interviews with and contributions by leading contemporary photographers that explore their influences, methods and motivations; and dazzling visual collections that present the very best animal photography from its inception to the present day. The result is a book that will engage those with an interest in wildlife photography and the natural world, but also those with a concern for the future of the planet.
Huw Lewis-Jones's expert authorship and curation celebrates extraordinary images by brilliant photographers, but also allows us to understand why people have photographed animals at different points in history and what it means in the present. Why We Photograph Animals is deliberately not a conventional history of wildlife photography. It's an exploration of the animal in photography. It speaks to our ongoing desire to look at animals; to understand, misunderstand and appreciate them; to use and abuse them; to neglect or come to value and protect them.
A visual overview of the history and future of animal photography, Why We Photograph Animals encourages us to think and rethink the way we have looked at - and used - animals and to consider our future relationships with non-human species.
Multi-stranded, this book features the work of more than 100 photographers supported by thematic essays that provide historical context; interviews with and contributions by leading contemporary photographers that explore their influences, methods and motivations; and dazzling visual collections that present the very best animal photography from its inception to the present day. The result is a book that will engage those with an interest in wildlife photography and the natural world, but also those with a concern for the future of the planet.
Huw Lewis-Jones's expert authorship and curation celebrates extraordinary images by brilliant photographers, but also allows us to understand why people have photographed animals at different points in history and what it means in the present. Why We Photograph Animals is deliberately not a conventional history of wildlife photography. It's an exploration of the animal in photography. It speaks to our ongoing desire to look at animals; to understand, misunderstand and appreciate them; to use and abuse them; to neglect or come to value and protect them.
Extent: 336 pp
Format: Hardback
Illustrations: Illustrated in colour
Publication date: 2024-03-14
Size: 24.8 x 19.8 cm
ISBN: 9780500022726
Praise for Why We Photograph Animals
Brings together the world's wildest animal photography ... gets up close and personal with big beasts, bramblings and a 'water bear' less than half a centimetre long
Sunday Times
An enlightening and thought-provoking book that every nature photographer should own
Outdoor Photography
Few books have treated us to the sheer range of visual spectacle that we find in Why We Photograph Animals. This book is an end-to-end, caught-on-the-wing or cunningly posed delight
TLS
A real treat for lovers of animal photography
Digital Camera World
About the Author
Huw Lewis-Jones is a historian of exploration, photography, and the environment, with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is an award-winning author and photo editor whose books include Archipelago: An Atlas of Imagined Islands, Explorers' Sketchbooks, Imagining the Arctic, Face to Face: Ocean Portraits, The Writer's Map, The Conquest of Everest and The Sea Journal.
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