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The Fairest Fowl

Portraits of Championship Chickens Photographs by Tamara Staples
Essay by Ira Glass

8 x 8-3/4 in; 108 pp ; 35 color portraits, 65 color and b/w images
Paperback
Published in April, 2001
ISBN 081183137X
ISBN13 9780811831376

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$14.95  

Reviews

Time Out New York
Sometimes, the oddest book will grab you, for no rational reason. Such is the case with The Fairest Fowl: Portraits of Championship Chickens. Tamara Staples's "fashion-runway-style" shots of cocky, prancing specimens of poultry pulchritude are strangely... sexy. The accompanying text on the competition circuit and standards of perfection—including plumage, combs and wattles—is equally fascinating. Who knew?