![]() ![]() With this book, we didn’t want to do anything kitsch, but rather produce a classic photography book, something as far away as possible from Instagram cats.” “The book is a celebration of a very talented and versatile photographer whose subject happened to be cats. ![]() “Walter really was and is the greatest cat photographer of the 20th Century, so he was a natural choice for a monograph,” Reuel adds. The project first began when Benedikt Taschen suggested it would be a good time to do a book on cats, especially after the success of the publisher’s book on dogs. “When he passed away during the production of the book – and it’s so sad that he didn’t get to see it in print – we were all very conscious that this book was now going to be this testament to his life’s work,” Reuel tells It’s Nice That. ![]() But partway through the project, Walter passed away at the age of 97 in January of this year. Photographs 1942-2018 was edited by Reuel Golden, Susan Michals and, to start with, Walter himself. “Fashion has Helmut Newton, architecture has Julius Shulman, and cat photography has Walter Chandoha,” writes Taschen on the release of its recent book dedicated to the career of the remarkable photographer. A prolific photographer from New Jersey who dedicated his career to photographing felines, Walter’s influence is indisputable. Long before cats of Instagram, or even Lolcats (if you can imagine a time before that) there was Walter Chandoha. ![]()
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