Olivia Snaije

This was quite a lovely book about various cats in Paris, France and their adopted homes in various restaurants, bookshops, museums and art studios. The biographies and backgrounds provide the stories about both the cats and their homes where they were often the in-house rodent control until settling down as resident attractions for both local regular customers and for tourists. lt made me wonder about how many other photography and story books could be written about the feline (or canine) inhabitants of locations around the world. There is certainly an added mystique and aura about Paris though that adds to the atmosphere here though.

This book appeared simultaneously in French as "Chats parisiens", so I am not sure which is the original and which is the translation. The beautiful photographs are by Nadia Benchallal who must have had a lot of patience to capture all of the images here.… (mehr)