Book: A Shadow Falls

If there has ever been a perfect merger of wildlife photography and fine art this is it.

There is a reason that Nick Brandt’s first book, On This Earth:  Photographs from East Africa is one of the most popular photography books of the decade.  The moment you open A Shadow Falls you will understand why.  Words almost fail to describe the images in this book and there can be no doubt that wildlife art will never be looked at in the same way again.

A Shadow Falls features some of the most emotionally evocative images of African wildlife you could ever wish to see and the book draws you into the world as Nick Brandt sees it.  Through 58 tritone plates, Nick tells the story of a vanishing world which heightens the emotive nature of the images even more, if that is at all possible. Whether you love monochrome image or whether you love African wildlife, this book is an absolute must and one that will be enjoyed forever.

I bought my copy of A Shadow Falls two days ago and have probably paged through the book a hundred times.  It is beautiful and makes you appreciate the fragile nature of the subjects and that the shadow that is falling over the earth is us.  Humans.

Emotive.  Inspirational.  Visually brilliant.  If you are looking for an absolutely amazing gift, for yourself or anybody else,  you cannot go wrong with this book.  It is truly majestic and as good as it gets.

You can get your copy of A Shadow Falls from Amazon by clicking here.  I got my copy from Exclusive Books and was quite surprised that Kalahari.net does not have it on their site yet.  You can however get a copy of Nick Brandt’s previous book, On This Earth:  Photographs from East Africa, from Kalahari.net by clicking here.  If anybody wants to send me a copy as an early Xmas gift that would be great ( ) alternatively I will no doubt be getting my own copy of this one soon.

More soon.

Gerry