The Living Wild by Art Wolfe, Wildlands Press, $55, ISBN
0967591805
PHOTOGRAPHER Art Wolfe takes pictures of the natural world that are as
cunning as they are beautiful. He directs our eyes towards things that in most
photographs would remain unnoticed. The frontispieces to his latest book,
The Living Wild, are photographs of parents with their young. A polar bear
cub and an Emperor penguin are at the focus of the pictures, but the images are
so cleverly composed that the parents’ stance reminds the viewer first of a
strong, fur-covered house and then of a solid windbreak. Parent is…
