The Keartons - Inventing Nature Photography - John Bevis

The Keartons - Inventing Nature Photography, by John Bevis / ISBN 9781910010099 / 192-page paperback with flaps from Uniformbooks (UK) “[An] excellent book, informative and intelligent, beguiled and questioning…”--Tim Dee, The Guardian *** In 1892, brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton took the first ever photograph of a bird’s nest with eggs. Realising the camera’s potential to reveal secrets of the natural world, they resolved to make the best possible records of their discoveries in the habitats, habits and behaviour of birds and other creatures. The following three years of field work resulted in the first nature book to be illustrated entirely with photographs. This was the springboard to two outstanding careers in wildlife photography. Richard developed the photographic hide through a series of devices which included the extraordinary Stuffed Ox, was author of numerous best-selling nature books, and with an exhaustive programme of public lectures did more than anyone of his generat