| Creature | 
 enlarge | Creator: Andrew Zuckerman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
Buy New: $44.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 9845
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 300
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 12.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0811861538
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.32092
EAN: 9780811861533
ASIN: 0811861538
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: December seems to be the classic month to celebrate the coffee-table book--those oversized tomes that sit out on display, easily enticing anyone within arm's reach to flip through the pages. One of my favorites of the season--and one you'll want to keep out all year long--is Andrew Zuckerman's Creature, a photographic safari of astounding studio shots of an ark's worth of animals, ready for their close-ups against a stark white backdrop. Mesmerizing, inspiring, and ultimately very, very cool. Badgers, fruit bats, and bald eagles never looked so good. --Brad Thomas Parsons
Product Description
Photographer Andrew Zuckerman's strikingly detailed images of animals from around the world are as delightful as they are inspiring. This collection of astonishing studio portraits of 175 wild creatures from baby leopards to parrots, bears, mandrills, and many more are stunningly foregrounded against white backgrounds, depicting their subjects with rare sensitivity, insight, humor, and wonder. Zuckerman also an up-and-coming filmmaker, whose first short film, High Falls, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 has created a volume perfect for animal lovers, photography fans, and anyone fascinated by the world around us. Creature is a beautiful and thought-provoking look at the fragile wonders of the natural world.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Cat October 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Creatures is a Wonderful, Beautiful, Amazing, Creative book.
Wish I will share with all my friends and family.
 Nice album September 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book as a gift for my husband - it is really beautiful and we both enjoyed it!
A daring design by a phenomenal artist August 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It is obvious by looking at the other reviews that the controversy over this book's layout is frustratingly bifurcated for the undecided buyer. The book has a delightfully bold layout and my review is as follows; the white backgrounds create a uniformity that stabilizes the book page to page. Additionally, the white aids the effort to capture the intrinsic 'creature' within each animal. Unless there can be an appreciation and an understanding for the blankness within this book, its purchase will sadly be seen as a waste. It is comforting to know that, regardless of harsh critics and naive readers, the book was driven solely by simple design. In our capitalistic economy today, it is difficult to create a sound book without trying to appeal to public tastes, but Andrew Zuckerman succeeded with Creature.
A great gift August 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The photos in this book are amazing. They are very detailed and clean, accompanied by the white background every animal comes alive. The back of the book helps you identify what each creature is. There is a massive amount of 'blank' space in the book, which some reviewers dislike. It is intimidating at first, but really draws your attention to the animal. My only dislike about this book is how bulky it is. For such sleek photos, the book is extremely thick, large, and heavy (though this does mean the photos are of decent size). I hope you have a big coffee table.
amazing August 1, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Andrew Zuckerman's photography is amazing and awe inspiring. Looking at his images becomes a meditation.
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