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
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).
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.
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
