Walter Chandoha. Cats. Photographs 1942–2018
$36.79
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2023
Summary
On a winter’s night in 1949 in New York City, young marketing student and budding photographer Walter Chandoha spotted a stray kitten in the snow, bundled it into his coat, and brought it home. Little did he know he had just met the muse that would determine the course of his life. Chandoha turned his lens on his new feline friend-which he named Loco-and was so inspired by the results that he started photographing kittens from a local shelter. These images ma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783836595315 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3836595311 |
| Author: | Susan Michals, Reuel Golden, Walter Chandoha |
| Publisher: | Taschen GmbH |
| Imprint: | Taschen GmbH |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 435g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 140mm x 16mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
His legacy is more than assured-Chandoha literally wrote the book on his field. * CNN *
About The Author
Susan Michals
Walter Chandoha (1920-2019) was a combat photographer in the Second World War, before a chance encounter with a cat led him on a path that would shape his professional career. He is regarded as the world’s greatest domestic animal photographer with a career spanning over seven decades and an archive of more than 200,000 photographs. His photographs have appeared on over 300 magazine covers, thousands of advertisements, and were regularly featured in magazines such as Life, Look, and their equivalents around the world.
Susan Michals is the founder of CatCon and Cat Art Show the two biggest cat-centric, pop culture events in the world. She is a former television producer and journalist whose work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, artnet News, The Observer, and Vanity Fair among others.
Reuel Golden is the former editor of the British Journal of Photography and the Photography editor at TASCHEN. His TASCHEN titles include: Mick Rock: The Rise of David Bowie, both London and New York Portrait of a City books, The Rolling Stones, Her Majesty, Football in the 1970s, the National Geographic editions, the David Bailey SUMO and Andy Warhol. Polaroids.
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