Beautiful whale

Resource Information

The work Beautiful whale represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Beautiful whale

Statement of responsibility

Bryant Austin ; foreword by Sylvia A. Earle

Creator

• Austin, Bryant

Photographer

• Austin, Bryant

Subject

• Illustrated works
• Livres de photographies
• Photobooks
• Photographie en gros plan
• Photographie sous-marine
• Photography, Close-up
• Photography, Close-up
• Pictorial works
• Underwater photography
• Underwater photography
• Austin, Bryant
• Whales -- Pictorial works
• close-up photography
• photobooks
• underwater photography
• Whales
• Baleines -- Ouvrages illustrés

Genre

• Ouvrages illustrés
• Photobooks
• Pictorial works
• photobooks
• Livres de photographies
• Illustrated works

Language

eng

Summary

Photographer and conservationist Bryant Austin's breathtaking photographic project Beautiful Whale is the first of its kind: It chronicles his fearless attempts to reach out to whales as fellow sentient beings. Featuring Austin's intimate images--some as detailed as a single haunting eye--that result from encounters based on mutual trust, Beautiful Whale captures the grace and intelligence of these magnificent creatures. Austin spent days at a time submerged, motionless, in the waters of remote calving grounds waiting for humpback, sperm, and minke whales to seek him out. As oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle says in her foreword to the book, "As an ambassador from the ocean--and to the ocean--Bryant Austin is not only a source of inspiration. He is cause for hope."

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction