David Doubilet
Photographer David Doubilet has been snorkelling since the age of eight. At thirteen he started taking his first underwater photographs in the green sea off the New Jersey coast and published his first pictures in National Geographic in 1972. He is widely acclaimed as one of the world's leading underwater photographers and has reported on most of the world's oceans, covering everything from shipwrecks to sharks. He is a contributing photographer in residence at the National Geographic Society, an honorary fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and has won many awards including the Lennart Nilsson Award in 2001. His books include Light in the Sea (Thomasson/Grant), Under the Sea from A to Z (Crown), Pacific (Bullfinch) Water Light Time (Phaidon), Fish Face (Phaidon), and Great White Sharks (Phaidon).
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Fish Face
The magical world of the oceans is one of the last great largely unexplored places on earth. Teeming with diverse forms of life – some of the ocean's wonders more familiar to us than others and all peculiar in their own way – Fish Face takes us closer than one would imagine possible. Featuring full-page, close-up portraits of the faces of fish, this book takes us from the beautiful to the ugly, and from the spiky to the rotund, in a majestic exploration of the vast variety of underwater species – all without fail both amusing and astounding.
This book celebrates the work of David Doubilet, widely acclaimed as the world's leading underwater photographer, who has been photographing fish for over 25 years: Fish Face shows us the most colorful, humorous and bizarre fish he has encountered.
Of particular interest to naturalists and photographers alike, this extraordinary collection of photographs will further appeal to anyone who has ever reflected on the otherworldly fish that inhabit the mysterious world of the oceans, as well as any individual with an eye for an out-of-the-ordinary aesthetic.
(Phaidon Press, January 2007)
Water Light Time
Beneath the surface of the world's waters lie landscapes, species, vegetations and populations as diverse and splendid as those on land, yet these kingdoms have been explored by few. Water Light Time is an extraordinary collection of photographs by David Doubilet, a pioneering artist and diver who is widely acclaimed as the world's leading underwater photographer.
From the Galapagos to the Red Sea, from the Pacific shores to the fresh waters of North America, Water Light Time includes over 25 years of Doubilet's work, to reveal the mesmerizing beauty of more than 30 bodies of water rich with fascinating life forms.
(Phaidon Press, July 1999)
Face to Face With Sharks
It is man’s greatest fear—being eaten alive. And diving down here in the depths, the streamlined shark holds every advantage. How close do you want to get?
Acclaimed underwater photographer David Doubilet takes you deep into their dangerous realm. Yet he points out that it is we who are the killers! Our fear and ignorance puts this diverse family of fish in great danger. Let David teach you about sharks’ complex nature, and about how you can help to save the shark.
(National Geographic Children's Books, February 2009)
Great Barrier Reef
A photobiography of the 1,250-mile span of Australia's Great Barrier Reef features 125 richly detailed photographs and essays that discuss the myriad life and extensive ecology of the area. 25,000 first printing.
(National Geographic, April 2002)
Two Worlds: Above and Below the Sea
The first major book in two decades by the pioneering underwater photographer, beloved as the 'Audubon of the sea'.
The ocean covers more than seventy percent of our planet, and yet we rarely glimpse its depths - and especially its exquisite beauty as documented by legendary photographer David Doubilet. His work in and on water has set the standard for decades. In this remarkable and highly-anticipated collection by artist and diver David Doubilet, whose innovation, eye for beauty, and passion for conservation have long set the bar for underwater photography, Doubilet unites life above and below the water's surface.
Spotlighting a stunning selection of images from Doubilet's 50-year career, spanning the Galapagos to the Red Sea, the icy waters of the Antarctic Ocean to the tropical Great Barrier Reef, this body of work raises important questions about conservation and global warming, topics never far from the headlines. 'I want to create a window into the sea', he says, that invites people to see how their world connects to another life-sustaining world hidden from their view. Doubilet's photographs are accompanied by an introduction by Kathy Moran and an afterword by Kathryn D. Sullivan.
(Phaidon Press, November 2021)