Contents
Foreword
Mike Keele
Elephant House
Nigel Rothfels
Photographs by Dick Blau
List of Photographs
Acknowledgments
Description
“These photographs are mesmerizing. . . . Blau’s photographs do not return us to a state of innocence with these animals. While the tenderness with which they are cared for is clear and their alert intelligence undeniable, these images haunt us because they forcefully convey how different this consciousness is from our own. Their intelligence, together with their beauty and magnificence, for a brief moment relieves us of our egoistical insistence on our imagined primacy as a species.”
—Tom Knechtel, Artillery