Fish Face

Description

Now available in paperback, Fish Face is a vibrant collection of fish portraits by master underwater photographer David Doubilet. Captured over Doubilet’s 30-year career, these full-page colour pictures feature an astounding variety of fish in oceans around the world, from pygmy sea horses in Indonesia to great white sharks in South Africa. A book that will fascinate photography lovers, naturalists, divers or anyone interested in marine life, Fish Face is also a funny and charming gift book that will appeal to adults and children alike.

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. 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.

‘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.’ (Independent)

Additional information

Dimensions	1.125 × 5 × 7.25 in
Imprint	Phaidon Press
Format	General Trade
ISBN-13	09780714847573
ISBN-10	0714847577
Author	David Doubilet
Audience	General / adult