Looking for a BIG, BEAUTIFUL BOOK of animal photos
April 10, 2018 7:49 PM   Subscribe

For a gift, I'm looking for a large "coffee table" size book of animal photos. This is for an adult, so not the youth oriented animal encyclopedias I'm finding.

Ideally, this book would:
  • Be Huge
  • Be Artsy (vs. educational)
  • Feature a wide range of animals photographed - from around the globe
  • Have very little text (again, not an educational book or descriptive)
Basically, just a damn big book of great animal photos. Every animal on the planet if possible. :-)

Any ideas?
posted by ecorrocio to Science & Nature (8 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Maybe Andrew Zuckerman: http://andrewzuckerman.com/creature/
posted by PinkMoose at 8:39 PM on April 10, 2018 [1 favorite]


Creature by Andrew Zuckerman?
posted by OneSmartMonkey at 8:42 PM on April 10, 2018 [1 favorite]


National Geographic's Photo Ark! The photographer's ultimate goal is to photograph every animal in captivity in the world.

https://shop.nationalgeographic.com/products/the-photo-ark
posted by leslietron at 9:09 PM on April 10, 2018


I used to have Animal Portraits and another book by Walter Schels. It appears to be out of print now but there are used copies.
posted by matildaben at 9:36 PM on April 10, 2018


Perhaps Brad Wilson's Wild Life?
posted by Athanassiel at 10:13 PM on April 10, 2018


If you are willing to compromise on the type/amount of animals, Sea by Mark Laita is one of the most beautiful books of animal photography I've ever seen. All of the animals just happen to be underwater animals. Google Image Search shows some of the images from the book so you can get a feel for it. Mark Laita also did a book of snakes, also stunning.
posted by DSime at 2:41 PM on April 11, 2018


Frans Lanting has several books like that.
posted by WalkerWestridge at 9:51 PM on April 11, 2018 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Thanks folks! I'll check 'em out.
posted by ecorrocio at 9:30 PM on April 12, 2018


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