Thefountaincomic3.jpg (500×469) 289.gif (500×323) Animals Like You've Never Seen Them Before. By Maria Popova From armadillos to zebras, or what championship chickens have to do with a giant octopus. It’s easy to take this amazing planet we inhabit for granted. While National Geographic‘s school of nature photography may have its place, there’s something remarkable and whimsical that happens when a fine art photographer takes her lens to Earth’s creatures — they become poetry. Today, we turn to five such photographers, whose portraits of animals — unusual, otherworldly, kooky, tender, charismatic — make the eye swoon and the heart sing. Andrew Zuckerman is one of my absolute favorite photographers working today, his Wisdom and Music projects priceless time-capsules of contemporary culture and his thoughts on curiosity and rigor as the key to creativity a beautiful articulation of my own credo.
In Creature, Zuckerman brings his exquisite signature style, crisp yet tender, to Earth’s beings. Asian Elephant Image courtesy of Andrew Zuckerman Six banded armadillo Mandrill Monkey Canary.
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