Photographer Jill Greenburg introduces you to twelve charming bears in this brilliantly packaged coffee table book Bear Portraits. Capturing more than just the bears, Jill Greenburg captures the unique personality of each bear as though they were bearing their very soul before her lens. Crisp images grace each page with thoughtfully chosen quotes ranging from poets, actors, and even the bear many of us are acquainted with Winnie the Pooh. Jill Greenburg captures the very essence of each bear, from the playfulness of the young cubs Amos, a European Brown Bear, and Brett, a Black Bear, to the raw power of Barney and Ursula, both Kodiak Bears. Jill Greenburg also captures the many different quirks of the twelve bears. She also is using drawing attention to the plight of the Polar Bears, photographing the majestic beauty of Agee. One of the photographs that stood out to me was the one of Agee that shows what appears to be tear trickling from her eyes, as though she is aware of the plight that her fellow bears face.


Bear Portraits by Jill Greenburg is charming collection of crisp, brilliant bear photographs that will both amuse and delight. Capturing the beauty, grace, playfulness, and pure power of twelve uniquely different bears, Bear Portraits is the perfect book to either keep or give as a gift.



Bear Portraits by Jill Greenburg was kindly provided for review by Hachette Book Group