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Portraits by David Doubilet

A vibrant collection of fish portraits by a master underwater photographer.

Text by David Doubilet

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Price: USD$19.95

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Specifications

Hardback
English
185 x 123 mm, 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 in
408 pp
c.200 colour photographs
ISBN-13: 9780714843018
ISBN-10: 0714843016

Overview

A vibrant collection of 200 fish portraits by master underwater photographer David Doubilet
Features full-page colour pictures of an astounding variety of fish species, from the beautiful to the ugly, from the spiky to the rotund
Will appeal to photography lovers, naturalists, National Geographic readers, divers and anyone interested in marine life
Compact format at an affordable price
Captures the colourful, humorous and bizarre fish that David Doubilet has encountered in his 25-year career as an underwater photographer

In The Press

'This strangest of portrait galleries is an essential stocking filler for any icothyopile ... Any surrealist would have been proud to invent the spiny porcupine fish, with skin like eddying smoke, a profusion of barbs, orange eye and leery grinning mouth. You couldn't make it up.' (The Independent)

About the author(s)

Born in America in 1946, David Doubilet began snorkelling at the age of eight. By the age of 13, he was taking his first underwater photographs with a pre-war Leica in the green sea off the New Jersey coast. Having studied photography at Boston University, he published his first pictures in National Geographic in 1972 and has continued to do so regularly since then, reporting from oceans around the world.

Doubilet has captured groundbreaking images of great white sharks, creatures of the undersea desert, flourescent corals and shipwrecks. Arguably the world's leading underwater photographer, Doubilet has received numerous awards including 'Pictures of the Year' Competition repeatedly, as well as the prestigious Lennart Nilsson prize in 2001.