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The ladies are back, and this time with a trilogy of feline fun. Christine Montaquila and Kim Levin’s bestselling “feline guides” are now available as a boxed set, including Cattitude: The Feline Guide to Being Fabulous, Catrimony: The Feline Guide to Ruling the Relationship, and Caternal Instincts: The Feline Guide to Mastering Motherhood. All three feature the unique black-and-white documentary-style photography and clever captions that have kept cat lovers wanting more.

In Cattitude, the felines give us the dish on living large for women in any stage of life, offering advice like “Accept your body. Augment your ego,” and “Realize a tiara is a state of mind.” In Catrimony they conquer the milestone of marriage with witty suggestions to “Hide the videotape” and “Devise a holiday evacuation plan.” And, finally, in Caternal Instincts the ladies get real about the challenges of parenting, encouraging every mom to “Buy stain resistant everything” and “Accept the fact that you’ll never pee alone again.” Perfect for birthdays, weddings, baby showers, or any gift-giving occasion, the Cattitude Boxed Set is for cat lovers, photography buffs, and everyone in between.

About the Authors:

Kim Levin is a photographer who specializes in pet portraiture. Her company, Bark & Smile ® Pet Portraits, combines her passion for photography and her love of animals. Kim is the photographer and author of ten books including Why We Love Dogs, Why We Really Love Dogs, Why We Love Cats, and Dogma (all Andrews McMeel). Bark & Smile® books have sold over 250,000 copies to date and have been published in six languages: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish. Her gift line currently includes greeting cards, mugs, journals, calendars, e-greetings, postcard books, note cards and magnetic pads. She has appeared on Animal Planet, Fox News Channel, News 12 Long Island, and News 12 New Jersey. Her photography has been featured in Reader’s Digest, Photo District News, Italian Elle, Bark Magazine, The American Kennel Club Gazette, and NJ Monthly. She was the official photographer for the 2004 ASPCA “make adoption your first option” calendar. Kim lives in New Jersey with her husband, two kids, and adopted greyhound/collie mix, Charlie.
By day, Christine Montaquila works in advertising as a creative director. She lives in Chicago with her husband Brad, son Luca, daughter Francesca, and her tiger kitty, Maddie. She has loved cats since childhood and has the scars to prove it.

This charming and adorable collection of the best cinematic dogs is sure to delight dog lovers and movie-goers alike. The Citizen Canine pack includes sixty of the bravest, cutest and furriest pooches ever to grace the silver screen. Covering 100 years of films from top-billed hounds like Lassie and Benji to comedic scene-stealers like Asta from Bringing Up Baby and Puffy from There's Something About Mary, all your favourite furry friends are here. Whether you have a canine companion or just wish you did, Citizen Canine is your perfect guide to dogs, movies and the magical moments when they come together.

A light, entertaining introduction covers the history of dogs in movies, from Charlie Chaplin to contemporary indie darlings, while fun facts and stories from behind the camera bring the all the featured films to life.

Find all about the tricks trainers used to train these canine actors, the following are included in the book:

Scraps (A Dog's Life)
Toto (The Wizard of Oz)
Matisse (Down and Out in Beverly Hills)
Sandy (Annie)
Cujo (Cujo)
Hooch (Turner & Hooch)
Beethoven (Beethoven)
Chance (Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey)
Fly (Babe)
The puppies (101 Dalmatians)
Buddy (Air Bud)
Lou (Cats & Dogs)
Shaggy (The Shaggy Dog)
Sam (I Am Legend)
Marley (Marley & Me)
Rocco (The Drop)
Bailey (A Dog's Purpose)

About the Author:

Wendy Mitchell is a contributing editor for Screen International. She has been a staff writer and editor at Entertainment Weekly, IndieWire and Rolling Stone and has written for The Guardian, Variety, Time Out New York, Glamour and Billboard. She consults for film festivals including San Sebastian, Zurich, Rotterdam and Goteborg.

In a heartfelt and original tribute to man’s best friend, Elliott Erwitt captures all the diversity of the canine kingdom. We witness Fido’s many moods from playful, perky scamp to quiet and constant companion. Ranging from daring little imps to lumbering and gentle beasts, Erwitt’s images unveil the quirkiness that makes these creatures so beloved while combining an unerring sense of composition with the magic of the moment.

Elliott Erwitt’s masterpiece is now available in a handy format and an unbeatable price

Since the wolf first snuck into the caves of our ancestors to take warmth from the fire, dogs have been man’s constant companion. Dogs, multi-award-winning photographer Tim Flach’s stunning follow-up to the critically acclaimed Equus, delves deep into the psyche of this enduring bond with Canis familiaris to present an exquisite study of “man’s best friend.”

From specimens on show at Crufts and Westminster to shelter dogs lovingly rescued by volunteers; from the grace and agility of racing greyhounds to adored domestic companions; from Afghan hounds to Hungarian komondors to Chinese crested, the images featured in Dogs promise to deliver one of the most appealing, popular, and exciting photographic tributes to dogs ever published.

A collection of witty photographs of dogs by Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt.

• A much-admired collection of witty, humorous images of dogs photographed over 50 years by the acclaimed Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt
• A fun, must-have item for all dog lovers, these charming images reveal why the dog is man's best friend
• Features thousands of young and old, wild and domestic dogs; Poodles, Airedales and Highland Terriers; dogs at play and rest; on beaches, hearthrugs, riverbanks, sofas and park benches

About the Author:

One of the greatest image makers of his generation, Elliott Erwitt (b.1928) describes himself as 'a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.' A member of Magnum since 1954, his camera has taken him all over the globe and his pictures have been the subject of many books and exhibitions worldwide. Artist and documenter, his work spans many traditions, subjects and approaches to photography.

P G Wodehouse was an English humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, lyrics and essays, all with the same light touch of gentle satire. He was a great admirer of Elliott Erwitt's work during his lifetime.

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Здесь собрано полтысячи фотографий самых разных собак: эрдельтерьеры, хайленд-терьеры, пудели, таксы...

Альбомчик делится на горизонтальные и вертикальные снимки - удобная и приятная мелочь - с указанием места и года.

Сэр Пэлем Грэнвил Вудхауз, который был большим поклонником Эллиота Эрвитта, пишет в небольшом вступительном слове к изданию: "Как же великолепны эти фотографии! Так и хочется на них смотреть. В его галерее нет ни одного «натурщика», который бы не растопил вам сердце".

"Meine Schüchternheit hat dazu beigetragen, dass ich Photograph wurde. In der High School stellte ich fest, dass die Kamera einen in Situationen bringt, wo man eigentlich nicht hingehört. Damals waren es die Abschlussbälle; heute sind es das Weiße Haus und die Hinterzimmer des Kreml ..." Elliott Erwitt, seit den 50er Jahren Magnum-Mitglied und zeitweise Präsident und Vizepräsident der legendären Agentur, wurde 1928 als Kind russischer Einwanderer in Paris geboren, wuchs in Mailand auf und emigrierte 1939 mit seinen Eltern in die USA. Wie alle Magnum-Photographen seiner Generation ist er sein Leben lang in der Welt zu Hause gewesen - und sein Leben lang "schüchtern" geblieben: ein Photograph, der den Ereignissen nicht nachjagt, sondern die Ereignisse auf sich zukommen lässt, abwartend, beobachtend, bereit für die großen und die kleinen Momente im Leben, die privaten und die offiziellen, die traurigen und komischen. Vor allem seine hintersinnigen, liebenswert ironischen Schnappschüsse haben ihn berühmt und weltweit populär gemacht. Unser 1997 erstmals erschienener Band, den er selbst zusammenstellte und den wir jetzt in 2. Auflage vorlegen, enthält die Ikonen seines reichen Lebenswerks - die offiziellen Arbeiten für Magnum und viele seiner personal exposures, jener "persönlichen" Bilder, die seinen Ruhm begründeten.

Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt is known for his candid black-and-white shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings. First published in 1997 and designed by the artist himself, this reprint presents his official Magnum pictures and many “personal exposures”.

The legendary and complex relationship between humans and horses is an enduring one.

The horse’s distinctive blend of grace and strength and its sleek beauty has long been analyzed, admired and represented in artistic form — whether through painting, sculpture or photography.

Raphael Macek’s inspiring images of equine majesty feature both close-ups and complete figures against the backdrops of artful landscapes. His balanced composition and exquisite lighting highlight the form, texture and muscularity of each unique creature. There’s a liveliness and immediacy to this collection. So much so, that at times, it’s as if these compelling portraits might just come to life at any second.

- A must-have for all horse lovers
- Fine-art photography that does true justice to equine nobility

No animal has captured the human imagination quite like the horse, depicted in media from cave drawings thousands of years ago through countless renderings in paint, clay, ink, even film. Award-winning photographer Tim Flach’s quest to document the horse has resulted in Equus, an intensely moving look at an animal - as solitary subject and en masse, from the air and from underwater - whose history is so powerfully linked to our own.

From exquisite Arabians in the Royal Yards of the United Arab Emirates to purebred Icelandic horses in their glacial habitat; from the soulful gaze of a single horse’s lash-lined eye to the thundering majesty of thousands of Mustangs racing across the plains of Utah, Equus provides an amazing and unique insight into the physical dynamics and spirit of the horse.

About the Author:

Tim Flach is a graduate of Central Saint Martins in London, where he studied photography. He spent twenty years as a successful advertising photographer before turning to more personal work, garnering much press and many awards along the way. This is his first book.

Eye to Eye, the first personal portfolio by master photographer Frans Lanting, presents an extraordinary collection of animal images by an award-winning photographer and naturalist who "has set the standards for a whole generation of wildlife photographers," according to the BBC.

More than 140 photographs, made over a period of twenty years, reveal the unique personal aesthetic Frans Lanting brings to wildlife photography, as well as the startling new perspective on animals his images provoke. In a review of his work The New York Times states, "Mr. Lanting's photographs take creatures that have become ordinary and familiar and transform them into haunting new visions."

This book's exquisite images are accompanied by personal stories and observations from a lifetime of working with wild animals around the world, ranging from orangutans in the rain forests of Borneo to emperor penguins in Antarctica. More than 70 species are represented in this astonishing portrait gallery celebrating the diversity of life on earth.

Frans Lanting does not seek in these encounters the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers: "The perfection I seek in my photographic compositions is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature." Frans Lanting's work has been lauded by designers as art, by biologists as science, and by others as a new vision of the relationship between animals and people - one that challenges us to look animals in the eye and see ourselves.

Where the wild things are. From South America to Africa, up close with rainforest flora and fauna

Jungles is a personal exploration of nature in the tropics by master photographer, storyteller, and naturalist Frans Lanting. In a unique collection of images made over a period of 20 years in jungles from the lowlands of the Congo to the cloud forests of the Andes, Lanting interprets the aesthetic splendor and the remarkable natural history of the tropical rainforest - a realm of bewildering complexity where nothing is the way it first appears. "While the essence of photography is to show, jungles hide, or at best, suggest," Lanting writes. "So I opted to show impressions of jungles to evoke a sense of their kaleidoscopic nature - the glimpses of faces that melt into shadows, the bursts of color and shimmering light."

The book features four portfolios of images taken years and continents apart and stories of field expeditions into tropical wilderness areas. "Water and Light" shows the interplay of these elements with plant and animal life, with a story about life after dark in the jungles of Central America. "Color and Camouflage" explores the need to hide and the desire to be seen, and details a journey to a remote part of the Amazon Basin to document macaws. "Anarchy and Order" features impressions of growth and movement, and leads to a trek up a mountain in Borneo. "Form and Evolution" is an ode to the wonders of natural selection, and culminates in encounters with primates in the forests of Madagascar and Africa.

In photographs ranging from spectacular gatherings of rainbow-colored macaws to the misty exhalations of a forest at dawn, Lanting evokes the lush sensuality and intricate natural order of the tropical regions that form the beating heart of life on earth.

The photographer:
Dutch-born Frans Lanting has been hailed as one of the great nature photographers of our time. For the past two decades, he has documented wildlife and our relationship with nature in environments from the Amazon to Antarctica. Exhibits of his photographs have been shown at major museums in Paris, Milan, Tokyo, New York, Madrid, and Amsterdam.

The editor:
Christine Eckstrom is a writer and TV producer whose work has appeared in National Geographic, Audubon, and International Wildlife. Her feature story "The Last Real Africa" won a 2007 Lowell Thomas Award for Best Magazine Article on Foreign Travel from the Society of American Travel Writers. She is also the author of Forgotten Edens: Exploring the World's Wild Places (1993). She collaborates with husband Frans Lanting from their home base in California.

Beauty of the beasts. Frans Lanting’s vibrant tribute to the Old Africa of Okavango

"Botswana, many say, represents the last of Old Africa. And in the heart of this arid land lies a place as inspiring and as incongruous as the snow-capped summit of Kilimanjaro rising on the equator: that is the Okavango, one of the greatest wetlands on earth, whose very existence in the middle of a desert is nothing short of miraculous." — Frans Lanting, 1993

For a year, Frans Lanting roamed the wetlands and deserts of northern Botswana, living by the rhythms of the water and the movements of the animals as he captured them on film. National Geographic had sent him there on assignment, but what he would take away was much more than a magazine story; it was a seminal and unparalleled collection of photographs depicting an epic world of wilderness and wildlife. As Lanting wrote, “To many who have seen the fate of other wild areas in Africa and elsewhere in the world, the very notion that such a place as Okavango still exists is like a dream.” Living out of vehicles and canvas tents, gliding through swamps, following lions by night - Lanting, armed with his cameras, got up close and personal with some of the planet’s most formidable creatures.

The book he published a few years later, Okavango, was a testament not only to the wondrous wildlife of the region, but also to Lanting’s extraordinary courage, skill, and photographic vision. After many publications of Lanting’s work, including Life, Jungles, Eye to Eye, and Penguin, TASCHEN now revisits his original classic which drew critical praise worldwide with this updated and expanded edition of Okavango, further enhanced with all new reproductions and dozens of previously unpublished photos, as well as a new preface by Lanting.

This book contains 168 photographs of thoroughbred racing taken by award-winning photographer Arthur Frank in the United States, France, and Ireland, and is introduced by a personal essay by The New York Times sportswriter Joe Drape. The photographs capture the beauty and excitement of one of the world's most popular sports by depicting the development of thoroughbred race horses from their days as foals, through training sessions, and then to the track. It also highlights the unique relationships between the horses and those individuals who bred them, own them, train them, care for them, and bet on them. As the photographer is more interested in the sport of horse racing than with celebrity, the book offers a unique humanistic depiction of the sport of kings and concludes with a tribute to the winners and losers.

Best known for her amazingly anthropomorphic and affectionate portraits of monkeys and bears, Jill Greenberg turns her lens to horses for her new photographic collection.

This is the perfect gift for every horse lover. In this beautifully conceived volume, Jill Greenberg captures the powerful, romantic, and enigmatic nature of horses through her signature lens in photographs that make these animals all the more otherworldly yet familiar. Where Greenberg’s earlier books explored the mystery and depth of emotion behind some of nature’s most dangerous creatures (Kodiak and polar bears, baboons, and gibbons, among others), Horses is an elegiac exploration of these heroic and often idealized creatures. Transformed by Greenberg’s lens, the horse’s powerful physical beauty becomes a hyper-real vision, and her gorgeous prints seduce us in a subtle manner with their sensuous, painterly textures.

Horses were Greenberg’s first muse and love, and for this portfolio she returns to her original inspiration. Featuring stunning photographs of a range of horse breeds, from Friesians and Andalusians to Arabian stallions, Lusitanos, and thoroughbred performance horses, this book is a gorgeous tribute to these spirited and powerful creatures and the perfect gift for those officially and unofficially devoted to horses, horseback riding, and racing.

Horses, just horses, sans riders, saddles and bridles — unless they’re in a stall, it’s not something you see much anymore. But this is precisely what Tony Stromberg, equine photographer extraordinaire, gives us. He photographs these graceful animals in a pure and natural way that no other photographer can match. And now, his most beautiful shots are collected in one breathtaking photo book: Horses. Whether they’re in stalls, in the paddock, or in fields and woods — Stromberg employs a perfect balance between light and shadow, unique composition, and a superlative feel for the right moment to make these majestic animals come alive, creating an authentic homage to a glorious creature. However, his pictures go far beyond merely depicting horses’ beauty. Stromberg, a former advertising photographer, had his first encounters with horses in the 1990s at a time when he was suffering from terrible burnout himself. But in these gentle companions, he found, in his words, teachers and soulmates who helped him regain a sense of peace. The deep connection to horses he has built since then is clearly evident in his photos, which is what makes them so special.

 - Immerse yourself in the world of these graceful and beautiful animals
 - An important homage and a must-have book for any horse lover

After building a successful career as an advertising photographer, TONY STROMBERG followed his inner desire to find peace in nature and moved into fine art photography. More than 20 years ago, he decided to change his focus to equine photography, and he has since built up a substantial archive of fantastic shots. His studio is in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In addition to the many photography workshops he and his team lead all over the world, he enjoys spending time with horses in nature.

Fabio Petroni has loved horses ever since childhood-and inspired by a painting of Rembrandt, he has produced an exceptional and distinctive series of equine photos unlike any other. His clever use of light, a skill gained from Petroni's long experience as a still-life and portrait photographer, enabled him to create extremely original images, with a unique style that is further enhanced by the book's oversize format.
From a colt trying to escape its overprotective mother to a shy horse who unexpectedly approaches the photographer, Petroni has truly captured the essence of these magnificent animals.