Endangered Species

Breaking from the traditional assumption      that      nature photographers  should  work in    a    naturalistic      setting, James Balog shows   animals as they are  —  wild,   captive and somewhere in between. 
Many    of    his    images  are stylized  portraits  taken  in a studio to dramatize the endangered nature  of these animals and  to  glimpse  into their psyche. 

The  Boulder-based  photographer  said  he  didn’t  want  to take  pictures  of  animals that simply helped to disseminate  
a pleasant fiction about an endless Garden of Eden. 
Instead,  his  modern  images  portray the tension between nature and civilization. 
These photographs are  taken  from  his  anthology  Animal, published September, 1999.

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