Customer Reviews

Bird

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I don't have the book in my hands yet (my daughter just sent me a link to Zuckerman's astonishing website - go see both the photographs and his film). I'm a lifelong ornithologist and bibliophile, and I've never seen anything like this man's work. Were they, indeed, photos or were they a whole new kind of superrealistic, microscopically detailed paintings? I couldn't tell. The sense of astonishment with this work is not just the vividness of the white backgrounds that isolate the subjects; it's equally, again and again, the startling perspectives on the bird's body and plumage. With each picture, you see birds as you have never seen them before.

It's not easy to do genuinely original work is a field already so saturated. This man has done it.

The quality of this book is absolutely astounding.
The photography is superb; incredible detail, color, interesting compositions. Even though the photographs are on a completely white background they have a crispness, and vibrance due to the careful lighting.
The page design is excellent, wonderful contrast of sizes, shapes, color and great use of the white space.
Oh, and the birds? Beautiful. A reminder of how amazing natural creatures are, how detailed the plumage, the delicacy of color, the silkiness of black feathered birds, and then the quirky details of theirs beaks, claws or other amazing details the photographer has picked out to show us.
A very impressive project, beautifully executed.

An absolutely amazing book of bird photography. A true art masterpiece of photography. It is a "must have" and "must see" experience. I have gone through this book multiple times and am still gasping. I have let everyone I know about this incredible book and those who have "experienced" it have the same reaction. WOW!!

Hundreds of pages of beautiful "photos" of birds on white backgrounds. From the other comments I was expecting photographs with incredible detail. Instead they look like photos that were edited in Photoshop with the watercolor and pencil effects. As photographs they are somewhat flat, 2D, and suffer from artifice. However, if you like the drawings in the birding books you'll love Bird, because that's exactly what you get. You can see what the images look like on the Amazon page for the book, in the section labeled "Take a Closer Look: Selected Photographs from Bird." They are beautiful, they just aren't photographic in appearance.

Nice sized coffee table book - some great photography of birds. Also has unusual birds you don't normally see everyday.

Birds. A weird product of evolution that makes for a great coffee table book. I also like that it has a lot a pictures and very little text. This is the best kind of book. Highly recommended to look sweet in your living room and entertain guest that have to awkwardly wait for you while you are getting ready. They will appreciate it more that having to start reading "Great Expectations" while waiting.

This stunning coffee table book of high-speed, high-detail photographs of birds on stark white backgrounds illustrates photography at its most artistic. Exotic birds are captured in flight, expressing their personalities, or displaying a single part of their anatomy -- a talon, for example, or an eye. Because of their sharpness, each photograph invites a close look, even with a magnifying glass, to see the details of birds as you've probably never seen them before. What's most startling about this collection of photographs is their composition on the blank page that draws the viewer's eye into the photographer's unique perspective. Zuckerman's artistic vision is unlike any other photographer I've seen, and this originality gives this book much of its power. Of course, the individual subjects, from a scarlet macaw to a green magpie to a King bird-of-paradise to a snowy owl to many others, lend personality to every page. Because part of the art is in the white (or negative space, if you will) of each page, none contains text or page numbers; instead, there's a thumbnail index at the back to learn about the species represented in each photograph.

This book makes the perfect gift for a bird lover or anyone who appreciates photographic art.

-- Debbie Lee Wesselmann

Not much you can say here. Andrew Zuckerman's work is always stunning... I only hope that one day he releases a book showing the behind the scenes of these amazing shots!

I love painting birds - it's a passion (not that I'm very good at it). This book is paradise for anyone wanting to use it as a base for painting a bird and whacking in lots of details. Gorgeous beautiful book - I'm thrilled with it. Mr Z is a stunning photographer. And the price is great too - beats buying it from a bookshop in Australia where it's about $95.

Beaufitful book. Am leaving it in the main room for our families to read at the Hospice whereI work to give people comfort