Rachel Sussman (1)

A coffee table book almost large and heavy enough to be used as a coffee table. Very much the tip of an iceberg - the creation of the book must have been a bit like performance art - a book built on 10 years of research, travelling, returning, living and sifting of material. Beautifully produced, a thing of beauty, yet however awesome the pictures are, they are always about the living things, never about the picture. And the personal account of the encounters with the living things struck just the right chord with me. I dipped into the book, skimmed and picked on things that interested me - then started at the beginning and read through to the end over several months, an evening here and an evening there.… (mais)

A coffee table book almost large and heavy enough to be used as a coffee table. Very much the tip of an iceberg - the creation of the book must have been a bit like performance art - a book built on 10 years of research, travelling, returning, living and sifting of material. Beautifully produced, a thing of beauty, yet however awesome the pictures are, they are always about the living things, never about the picture. And the personal account of the encounters with the living things struck just the right chord with me. I dipped into the book, skimmed and picked on things that interested me - then started at the beginning and read through to the end over several months, an evening here and an evening there.… (mais)