It's the title of a book:
Late this morning I bundled up against the cold and walked several blocks to The Copper Kettle, a small cafeteria-style restaurant in a little strip mall that also includes Rhino BookSellers (Used, Rare, Endangered).
I was at the small shopping center about 15 minutes before The Copper Kettle would open its doors. So I went into Rhino to browse its bookshelves, especially the art, photography, and poetry sections.
This book, which I bought, was published in 1980, by Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York.
I acquired it (used, of course) for $6.00 U.S. It's paperback, about 8 1/2 x 11 x 1/4 inches. And gorgeous. Absolutely glorious black-and-white cat photos, with a few wonderful photos in color, also.
I'd like to quote a small part of the text (fair use) from the first page of comment. The book opens with two double-page-spread images of beautiful cats, their photos cropped just above the eyes.
Here's the relevant text. I hope someone will want to discuss it with me:
Quoted from The Photographed Cat, "Introduction":
Quoting from The Photographed Cat,
back cover:
But Ling is blacker still, and the dark background only emphasizes her left foreleg as she steps toward the camera. The frame ends there, and it ends at the top just above her glowing yellow eyes .
Magnificent photo, flash-bleached eyes and all.
Ling is not centered. She is two-thirds of the way toward the righthand edge of the frame.
I love her.
Mary
The Photographed Cat
Great Photographers on Cats
Henri Cartier-Bresson * Arnold Newman
Jill Krementz * Bruce Davidson * Andre Kertesz
Carl Fisher * Leonard Freed * Duane Michals * Ruth Orkin
Barbara Morgan * Bill Hayward * Jill Friedman
Philippe Halsman * Peter B. Kaplan * and many more
Edited by J.C. Suares
Text by Chris Casson Madden
Late this morning I bundled up against the cold and walked several blocks to The Copper Kettle, a small cafeteria-style restaurant in a little strip mall that also includes Rhino BookSellers (Used, Rare, Endangered).
I was at the small shopping center about 15 minutes before The Copper Kettle would open its doors. So I went into Rhino to browse its bookshelves, especially the art, photography, and poetry sections.
This book, which I bought, was published in 1980, by Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York.
I acquired it (used, of course) for $6.00 U.S. It's paperback, about 8 1/2 x 11 x 1/4 inches. And gorgeous. Absolutely glorious black-and-white cat photos, with a few wonderful photos in color, also.
I'd like to quote a small part of the text (fair use) from the first page of comment. The book opens with two double-page-spread images of beautiful cats, their photos cropped just above the eyes.
Here's the relevant text. I hope someone will want to discuss it with me:
Quoted from The Photographed Cat, "Introduction":
The photos are wonderful--from Harry Warnecke's 1925 New York image of a mother cat carrying her kitten across the street while a policeman holds back the traffic and a crowd looks on (actually Warnecke managed to re-stage this scene, after he missed by a hair capturing the original event) to Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Shop Window," Paris, 1968. And everything in between, beginning with Eadweard Maybridge's Animal Locomotion 717, The Cat, 1884, and concluding with Jere Cockrell's pet cat, Ling, New York City, 1980 (back cover).Cats have nine lives.
The average photographer has a studio, several cameras, a dark-room, an assistant, an answering machine...and a cat. This book is about the friendship between photographers and cats.
The cat made his appearance in art long before the invention of the camera. He was sculpted by the Egyptians thirty centuries ago, and painted for the past thousand years, in Europe as well as in Japan. J.B. Greuze painted cats during the eighteenth century, Francisco Goya included cats in early nineteenth century etchings, and Pablo Picasso did an etching of a cat in 1942.
By the time the camera was invented, the cat had already (a) found himself in the language of art and (b) become a fixture in the artist's studio. It was only a matter of time before he would stroll before the lens. ...
Quoting from The Photographed Cat,
back cover:
Ling is a black cat, like my M&M. The kitchen floor boards are wide, polished wood. Grain looks like walnut to me, and the brown is dark, with black patterns from the natural cross-section of the tree.I was sitting on the floor in my kitchen loading my camera, and this was the first one off the roll. It was taken in the evening with a flash, and that's why Ling's eyes are so bleached out.
But Ling is blacker still, and the dark background only emphasizes her left foreleg as she steps toward the camera. The frame ends there, and it ends at the top just above her glowing yellow eyes .
Magnificent photo, flash-bleached eyes and all.
Ling is not centered. She is two-thirds of the way toward the righthand edge of the frame.
I love her.
Mary