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Natural Magic by Jordan Bear Three up and coming 19th-century scholars offer new views on the use and employment of the salted paper print photographic process in North America. Learn more | See related books
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The imagery in this book is so amazing! I bought the book so that I could take some of the photos and frame them in a large grouping. I got the idea from Houzz.com. It is going to be fabulous! I received the book after only three days of ordering and can't wait to get the frames now to hang the pics up!!
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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!!
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As with his book, Creature, Bird is a beautiful series of photos of birds, sometimes just a closeup of a feather, an eye, a talon. For any bird lover, for any artist, this book is an inspiration.
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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
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An awesome work of art. We gave this as a gift to someone who loves birds and it went over really well. The photographer has done some incredible work on this book.
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