Rarely seen black-and-white photographs from the earliest years of Chandoha's expansive cat photography career
The undisputed king of cat photography, Walter Chandoha defined the visual language of cat portraits in an extraordinary practice spanning over 80 years. His signature lighting technique captured each cat's unique personality and created timeless, empathetic and downright adorable images that continue to inspire artists and photographers today. Family Cats is a sweet and petite selection of black-and-white archival photographs hidden away for half a century. It includes images of Chandoha's original muse, Loco, whom he found and adopted during a New York City snowstorm in 1949. The other feline costars featured are the Chandohas' own family cats or rescue cats from an animal shelter in Greenwich Village. These cute and charming images are guaranteed to bring joy to the cat lover in your life. Walter Chandoha (1920–2019) was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. During World War II he served as a combat photographer in the US Signal Corps, and began photographing cats shortly after his return in the late 1940s. Over his career, Chandoha created a remarkable oeuvre of over 200,000 photographs, including some 90,000 images of cats.
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When it comes to cat photography, there really is no one better than Walter Chandoha. Author of hundreds of magazine covers, thousands of commercial advertisements and more than thirty books, he got his start in the late-1940s after returning from his stint as a combat photographer during World War II. Though many fans know his iconic color photography well, very few have seen his earliest black-and-white pictures of his first family cats, which are gathered in this concise new release from Damiani. “What a wonderful life Walter must have had, surrounded by all his muses,” Grace Coddington writes in her Introduction. “Seen through Walter’s lens you feel each cat personality beaming out, an endless supply of leaping, bounding, yawning kittens at his disposal. I envy him!!” Featured here, a photograph captioned “Long Island, 1955.” continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 30 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $22.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $30 ISBN: 9788862088589 PUBLISHER: Damiani AVAILABLE: 6/2/2026 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA
Walter Chandoha: Family Cats From the Archive 1949–1968
Published by Damiani. Foreword and illustration by Grace Coddington.
Rarely seen black-and-white photographs from the earliest years of Chandoha's expansive cat photography career
The undisputed king of cat photography, Walter Chandoha defined the visual language of cat portraits in an extraordinary practice spanning over 80 years. His signature lighting technique captured each cat's unique personality and created timeless, empathetic and downright adorable images that continue to inspire artists and photographers today.
Family Cats is a sweet and petite selection of black-and-white archival photographs hidden away for half a century. It includes images of Chandoha's original muse, Loco, whom he found and adopted during a New York City snowstorm in 1949. The other feline costars featured are the Chandohas' own family cats or rescue cats from an animal shelter in Greenwich Village. These cute and charming images are guaranteed to bring joy to the cat lover in your life.
Walter Chandoha (1920–2019) was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. During World War II he served as a combat photographer in the US Signal Corps, and began photographing cats shortly after his return in the late 1940s. Over his career, Chandoha created a remarkable oeuvre of over 200,000 photographs, including some 90,000 images of cats.
