Masterpieces of Bird Photography

Abstract

HAD this book been published in 1939 I believe we should have seen a higher standard of reproduction of the various outstanding photographs of birds which render it a remarkable volume. But the difficulties of post-war production are not the only ones which cropped up—some of the negatives of the earlier photographers have been irretrievably lost, and reproduction had to be made from existing prints. That fine photograph, for example, of the pair of golden eagles at the eyrie together, taken by the late A. J. Hooker Roberts, would, I am sure, have been much better reproduced had the negative been found. The book is largely the work of members of the Zoological Photographic Club, to which the volume is dedicated. The birds shown are all British birds, although some of them have been photographed abroad. The reproduction of the snow goose, for example, was taken in Greenland by the late David Haig-Thomas, and William Farren's spoonbill was secured in the Marismas of Andalusia.

Masterpieces of Bird Photography

Edited by Eric Hosking Harold Lowes. Pp. 144 (63 plates). (London: Wm. Collins, Sons and Co., Ltd., 1947.) 12s. 6d. net.