The Literary Cat

by Walter Chandoha, Black and White Photographs (Illustrator)

A compendium of of kitty photos, poems, and other musings from the godfather of cat photography.

Genres: Nonfiction

194 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Walter Chandoha (1920–2019) was a combat photographer in the Second World War, before a chance encounter with a cat led him on a path that would shape his professional career. He is regarded as the world’s greatest domestic animal photographer with a career spanning over seven decades and an archive of more than 200,000 photographs. His photographs have appeared on over 300 magazine covers, thousands of advertisements, and were regularly featured in magazines such as Life, Look, and their equivalents around the world.

Reviews

[Karen GoatKeeper]

Cat owners know their cats have an infinite number of poses. This book contains many of them. It is black and white, but the pictures are still great, maybe even more as black and white shows details so well.
There are accompanying pages with quotes from many places about cats. Some are poems. As with any collection of disparate works, some are more appealing than others.
The book is fun, easy to read and often interesting. But the photographs are the biggest draw.