The book of the month :
The World Of The Polar Bear
by the photographer Norbert Rosing
175 color photos, published by National Geographic
Norbert Rosing is obviously an excellent photographer. And his greatest asset in this respect, is to avoid reducing the subject in purpose to only be a beautiful picture, as do some animal photographers.
In other words, the photographer Norbert Rosing does not seek to dazzle us with its photographic performance. He retires modestly and discreetly behind its lens in the patient waiting for his subject, and manages to make us fully explore and enjoy the polar bear as if we were on site, at the point of forgetting completely that we are looking at pictures in a book
The surrounding flora and fauna are also well documented by a careful and sensitive camera, helping us to better live the life context of polar bears.
What makes the experience of reading the Rosing book particularly moving, for both children and adults, is the central place he gives to the experience of a “mama bear” with her cubs. Many shared affection in these pictures!
We also discover the playing side of polar bears. A significant change from the menacing image of irritability that many people have of this animal, although this aspect is also covered in his book.
The book The World Of The Polar Bear, with its 175 color photos, offers to the one who wants to draw a large variety of photos of polar bears in all sorts of poses.The youth edition Face to Face with Polar Bears, smaller version with 32 pages, is already a very good way to become familiar with the subject.
Somehow, for many of us, the polar bear is an animal distant, almost abstract and mythic, because its existence is distant from our urban and industrialized reality.
After contemplating the pictures by Norbert Rosing, especially after taking the time to draw some of them, the personality of the polar bear becomes somewhat familiar. It’s like having a special time spent together with a distant cousin whom we didn’t know, and now that we could never forget so the meeting was outstanding!
To visit the website of Norbert Rosing
http://www.rosing.de
