EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

Dogs, cats, birds, fish… We live in a world teeming with creatures of literally every size and ilk. Some roam the wild while others nap at our laps in our homes. Many are very much part of our lives, providing us sustenance with their love and loyalty. “Those Adorable Animals” is comprised of the finest photographs of living creatures drawn from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum’s extensive collection of the medium. They include the works of such photographic pioneers as Eadweard Muybridge, whose stop-motion photography of a galloping horse tantalized the world; André Kertész, known as the father of photojournalism; Robert Capa, the award-winning war photographer and photojournalist; and Lotte Jacobi, a leading American photographer renowned for her dramatic black-and-white portraits. The animals of the diorama series taken by the world-renowned Japanese photographer Sugimoto Hiroshi (1948-) at the American Museum of Natural History in New York will also be exhibited. Animals. At times, they soothe the soul. At times, they reveal Nature’s unforgiving ways. And yet, they never fail to inspire in us the power and allure of life itself.