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Classic Humanoid Cat Photography

2022-04-28 / 793 Read

American photographer Harry Whittier Frees was born in 1879, a time when photography was far from commonplace, but his pictures will leave you in disbelief, because these cats are real, and they do wear humanoids The clothes, the human movements, and the photographers! Photographers have taken a large number of these humanoid photos (many of them are cats) in the last century, and they have been printed on a large number of postcards. In children's books, with the addition of dialogue and narration, many works have been spread to this day!

Animal photos + interesting text is a common way of playing on the Internet today, the so-called LOLcat, LOL is laughing out loud. For example, the Grumpy Cat, which is popular all over the world, is an example, and photographer Harry Whittier Frees is also a pioneer of this kind of work.

In order to shoot these works, the photographer used some special clothes to keep the animals in a specific pose, and kept waiting, trying, and repeating shots, plus the photography technology at that time, you You can imagine how difficult it is, but the photographers left behind a lot of excellent work, which is really amazing.

The main animals used by the photographer are his two cats, Rags and Fluff. He also borrows the pets of neighbors and friends. Why did he start such a difficult photographic project? It started with a birthday party in 1906, when he photographed a kitten in a paper hat, and the business took off. From the initial simple props, it gradually turned into a rich picture that everyone saw.

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