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arabellaredfox's review
5.0
This book was beautiful and truly haunting. A grim reminder that most of the time mankind only looks out for itself. If we continue to consume the planet at the rate we have been going, all of the creatures in this book will become distant memories.
lisafweeks's review
3.0
Lovely. Heart-wrenching. Birds, mammals, insects, plants. All worthy of our attention and our conservation efforts.
g_na's review
5.0
A pictorial essay highlighting 69 species of endangered American plants and animals, some of whom have since gone extinct. Sartore's photos are beautiful, and short blurbs describing how they came about accompany some of the photos. (Who knew if would take 4.5 months to get a permit to photograph a wild Dehli Sands flower-loving fly, and then require a federally permitted fly handler and several federal agents to be present to capture a single fly, one of less than a thousand remaining.) Not all species included are as cute or iconic as the polar bear or the black-footed ferret, but cuteness should not be a prerequisite for conservation.
drone232's review
challenging
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
A brilliant display of photographs against white and black backgrounds of species whose , numbers range in the dozens to those whose , numbers are rising out of endangered status.
libraryofretellingsandstars's review
5.0
"Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species" by Joel Sartore is a collection of animals wh0 have unknown number of their community, less than 1,000, between 10,000-1,000, and who have more than 10,000 of their community.
I would give "Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species" by Joel Sartore a 5-star review because, 1; I love the few animal pictures that where inside, and 2; I loved learning more about these animals who were some I didn't know and some I did.
I would give "Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species" by Joel Sartore a 5-star review because, 1; I love the few animal pictures that where inside, and 2; I loved learning more about these animals who were some I didn't know and some I did.
alexauthorshay's review
informative
reflective
3.0
I really like the concept behind Animal Ark and Sartore's work. I get the idea behind using plain backgrounds to let the animals stand out with their own features. And that photos of some of these animals can be really hard to take. But some of them are the animal facing away or only partially in the frame or otherwise not fully visible and it seems like, not "bad" photography, but like better images could have been chosen. I picked the book up mostly for the photos but I actually found the facts and info tidbits included with each photo and how the book was sectioned into how many (estimated) of each species is left more useful.
aengblom's review
4.0
The photos in this book are absolutely exquisite while also haunting. This book contains a small sample of the endangered species of North America, shedding light on the nature around us that is slowly disappearing without notice in our daily life. In addition to photographing species with declining numbers, this book also provides us with examples of species we brought back from the brink of extinction with support from individuals like us. This book is a testament to how we decide to handle environemental degradation in today's society - it either stands as documentation of what we chose to lose OR as declaration of what we fought to protect. Overall the book is beautiful and eye opening.