EYE TO EYE

A fantastic account of the thrilling wildness Eye to Eye, the firstpersonal portfolio by master photographer Frans Lanting, presents anextraordinary collection of animal images by an award-winning photographerand naturalist who "has set the standards for a whole generation ofwildlife photographers," according to the BBC. More than 140 photographs,made over a period of twenty years, reveal the unique personal aestheticFrans Lanting brings to wildlife photography, as well as the startling newperspective on animals his images provoke. In a review of his work The NewYork Times states, "Mr. Lanting's photographs take creatures that havebecome ordinary and familiar and transform them into haunting newvisions." This book's exquisite images are accompanied by personal storiesand observations from a lifetime of working with wild animals around theworld, ranging from orangutans in the rain forests of Borneo to emperorpenguins in Antarctica. More than 70 species are represented in thisastonishing portrait gallery celebrating the diversity of life on earth.Frans Lanting does not seek in these encounters the beauty traditionallyrevered by wildlife photographers: "The perfection I seek in myphotographic compositions is a means to show the strength and dignity ofanimals in nature." Frans Lanting's work has been lauded by designers asart, by biologists as science, and by others as a new vision of therelationship between animals and people - one that challenges us to lookanimals in the eye and see ourselves.