Other Animals - Hardcover

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Other Animals is the sequel to American artist Elliot Ross criticallyacclaimed book of photographic animal portraits titled Animal (SchiltPublishing 2010). Approaching more closely subjects of manyspecies, he has continued examining his thoughts and feelings aboutbeing an animal in a world with other animals: the wonder andbeauty, as well as the unease. In this book he studies other species similarities and differences, their textures, physiques, and apparentphysiognomies while using free-hand drawing techniques he hasdeveloped within digital imaging. The result is a group of strikinglysculptural black-and-white portraits that are at once photographs anddrawings.Each image in Animal is not only a portrait of a non-human animal; itis, in many ways, a self-portrait (for each of us shares DNA with otherspecies) and also a question: What can be known and what isunknowable in our relationships with other animal species? I believeno one has summarized the psychological complexity of how werelate to other animals better than this contemporary Americanphilosopher: In the case of our relationship with animals, a sense ofthe difficulty with reality may involve…a sense of astonishment andincomprehension that there should be beings so like us, so unlike us,so astonishingly capable of being companions of ours and sounfathomably distant. How powerfully strange it is that they and weshould share as much as we do, and also not share; that they shouldbe capable of incomparable beauty and delicacy and terrible ferocity;that some among them should be so mind-bogglingly weird orrepulsive in their forms or in their lives. - Cora Diamond

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