CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/20/2026

Cat personality beaming out in 'Walter Chandoha: Family Cats'

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.”