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If there were two people, their eye attention was directed to one focal point. The nice thing about the Rockwell pictures is that the line of sight is always centralized. What’s the secret to a good, successful cat photograph? “I would say, for my photographs, I like the eye contact,” Chandoha says in an interview printed in the book. (“Due to their association with softness, my cat photos even ended up on a package for brassieres,” Chandoha says in the Aperture book.) Since the late 1940s, his images have also appeared in countless ads and on packaging for pet-food and other products.
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Chandoha has published over 30 books of cat photography, including All Kinds of Cats (1952), How to Photograph Cats, Dogs, and Other Animals (1973), The Literary Cat (1977), and Walter Chandoha’s Book of Cats and Kittens (1983). This isn’t the first book of Chandoha’s work, but it’s the first to present it as art, and the first to frame Chandoha as the godfather of a now ubiquitous genre. “They bear examination not only for their singular charm, but also for the way Chandoha established a vocabulary of the studio animal portrait with his signature look, utilizing clean, brightly colored backdrops and high-key ‘glamour’ backlighting of his tiny, fuzzy subjects.” After all, if people are willing to pay top dollar for these 'blasts from the past', there isn't much out there anymore to watch.Photograph from ‘Walter Chandoha: The Cat Photographer’ (Aperture, 2015) (click to enlarge)Ī new book from Aperture, Walter Chandoha: The Cat Photographer, compiles his best feline glamour shots, which straddle the line between commercial portraiture and fine art photography. “With the Internet awash in cat pictures, Chandoha’s images might be seen as the forefather to them all,” David La Spina and Brittany Hudak write in the book’s introduction. It is hopefully apparent that along with our other favorites from this Golden Age of 'TV-toons', Warner will make sure that this trend continues and considering that Hanna-Barbera virtually owned Staurday morning as well as prime time, we should be looking forward to other collections very soon allowing us baby-boomers to relive our childhoods once more, and share with future generations who otherwise have been deprived of genuine quality entertainment. As a result, the show seems not to have aged at all, and consiering that the scripts were first-rate to begin with, it really hasn't. AMAZING !!! As for quality, all of the episodes have been digitized and restored to their uncut brilliance, complete with the original laugh tracks, that is if you like that kind of thing.
#TOPCAT STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES#
Like other animated prime-time series ("The Flintstones", "The Jetsons", "Rocky & Bullwinkle"), this played to an adult audience as well as the kids which explains the wide appeal of this program, and its continued durability after 40+ years. The four DVD set contains all 30 original episodes, and includes the pilot about the gang's trip to Hawaii, as well as some priceless background information for the serious fanatic out there. From my point of view, the only apparent fault I could find was that some of the episodes could have much shorter though I am sure the purists out there would disagree. Despite the fact that the original run of this series was only from 1961-62, "TOP CAT" still has a cult following, as well as a high place on the top 100 Cartoons of All-Time. I must admit that I was never a big fan of this show, but after learning that at long last, Warner Home video had issued the COMPLETE SERIES on DVD recently, I just had to take a look especially since this may be the ONLY chance to view it unless my cable system decides to offer the Cartoon Network's BOOMERANG channel sometime soon.