Frans de Waal's collection of primate portraits covers various species of monkeys in many social situations. Long hours spent with his subjects means that Waal had their total trust when photographing them.
Frans de Waal's collection of primate portraits covers various species of monkeys in many social situations. Thus, his subjects have a natural, unforced manner that allows their true nature to shine through. Waal's accomplishment, in this occasionally hilarious, frequently touching, but always fascinating collection of photographs is that he transcends the notion that the value of primates lies in how much they are like humans. His texts and pictures reveal them not as inferior versions.
For more than three decades Frans de Waal, the author of best-sellers such as Chimpanzee Politics and . Photographing his subjects over the years, de Waal has compiled a unique family album of our closest animal relatives.
Photographing his subjects over the years, de Waal has compiled a unique family album of our closest animal relatives. To capture the social life of primates, and their natural communication, requires intimate knowledge, which is abundantly present here, in the work of one of the world's foremost primatologists.
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My Family Album" catalogs 30 years of de Waal's black and white photographs of both wild and captive primates. Noted primatologist Frans de Waal has put together a beautifully printed pictorial tribute to primates. The bulk of the shots are of chimps and bonobos, but a third are of monkeys and there are striking photographs all around. In high quality black-and-white photographs, he documents similarities and differences among non-human primates in areas as diverse as play, confrontation, sex, familial ties, and social activities. The accompanying text describes not only the meaning behind the pictures but also, in true de Waal form, how they relate to human behavior.
This book offered the first description of primate behavior explicitly in terms of planned social strategies. My Family Album, Thirty Years of Primate Photography 2003
Frans de Waal in 2006. This book offered the first description of primate behavior explicitly in terms of planned social strategies. My Family Album, Thirty Years of Primate Photography 2003. Tree of Origin: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us about Human Social Evolution, Harvard University Press, 2001.
Profile of Frans B. M. de Waal. January 2001 · Signs Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
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