Beautiful Chickens

By Christie Aschwanden By (photographer) Andrew Perris


Beautiful Chickens
Online price: £12.99
Paperback, 112 pages
Published: 3rd March 2011

Category: Architecture, Art and Design, General


Portraits of forty champion breeds, hen picked for your enjoyment

The latest title in the successful Beautiful... series (following in the groundbreaking
hoof-prints of Beautiful Sheep, Pigs, and Cows), Beautiful Chickens takes the humble farmyard fowl and places it in the frame of a top portrait photographer. Stylishly lit and shot against a studio background, the portraits showcase forty of the world’s most distinctive breeds, primped and preened for their moment of fame at assorted livestock shows. Featuring prize-winning cocks and hens, this is the ultimate in poultry portraiture. The book includes descriptions of each breed, covering their origins, physical attributes, and uses. There’s also a history of hens and roosters through the ages, an introduction
to the breed basics, and reportage photography from behind the scenes.

Beautiful Chickens is the perfect gift for anyone, whether their fancy is for all things fowl or simply for beautiful photography. It’s the coffee-table book guaranteed to get your guests talking, whether clucking over the remarkable imagery or ruffling feathers with poultry observations.

Delightful portraits of 40 champion breeds recognised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain. - Bookseller

Primped, preened and proud - a beauty parade of chickens supreme. - Daily Telegraph

The ultimate in poultry portraiture, this collection of photographs by Andrew Perris shows 40 of the world's most fammous breeds in all their primped, preened and prize-winning perfection… There is nothing fowl about this egg-cellent introduction to our feathered friends. - Daily Express

Experience gleaned in advertising photography lends Andrew Perris's portraits of champion chicken breeds a studied poise and superficial sheen that lifts them out of the world of the nugget and (almost) on to the catwalk. - Time Out

The photographs in the book are fantastic and the poetic descriptions, eloquently written by a poultry expert are instructive and repay careful reading… I used my strongest magnifying glass to scrutinise the beautiful birds illustrated in this beautiful book. It has been an honour and a pleasure to review it. - Spectator

We see chickens in a completely new light. - Yorkshire Gazette

A ravishing new book. - Sussex Life

This Ugly Betty of the farming world has had a surprise makeover and is demanding to be adored. In a ravishing new book, the lowly farmyard fowl has decided to grab its moment in the spotlight with both feet and, well, appears to have rather enjoyed itself. - Sussex Life

The sort of book you'd buy for a friend as a joke and end up reading. - Newcastle Journal



Publication Details:

Binding: Paperback, 112 pages
ISBN: 9780711231924
Format: 210mm x 250mm
75 photographs in colour and b/w

BIC Code: AJ, TV
BISAC Code:  PHO013000
Imprint: Frances Lincoln


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