In memoriam Walter Chandoha, the man who revolutionized the photography of cats (and announcing an IPKat call for pictures)

As reported by The New York Times (obituary of January 17th by Richard Sandomir), anyone who has an affection for felines, such as the IPKat, lost one of its most prominent chroniclers, when Walter Chandoha passed away on January 11th at the age of 98. In the words of Carey Dunne, in a 2016 article for Hyperallergic.com—Once upon a time, though, there was but One Cat Photographer to Rule Them All. His name was Walter Chandoha. His passing away gives the IPKat pause to recall his accomplishments and how they go to the heart of photographs as a special type of artistic work in the world of copyright. First, some numbers. Dunne recites a study that, in Britain alone, more than 3.8 million photos and clips are shared each day, twice as many as dogs (and selfies). Cats may be among the most venerated objects of picture-taking in our social-media times. But Chandoha was not of that world. He worked in an earlier time, as a professional photographer with his main interest…

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