{"id":17464,"date":"2025-09-12T21:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/17464\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:35:09","slug":"vibrant-portraits-in-tim-flachs-feline-celebrate-our-enduring-love-for-cats-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/17464\/","title":{"rendered":"Vibrant Portraits in Tim Flach&#8217;s &#8216;Feline&#8217; Celebrate Our Enduring Love for Cats \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the lens of <a href=\"https:\/\/timflach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tim Flach<\/a>, exotic bird species, farm animals, and our canine companions brim with personality. Through books like Dogs, Endangered, and Birds, he highlights familiar animals alongside wildlife we don\u2019t often get the chance to meet face-to-face (thankfully, in some cases). Flach\u2019s vibrant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/tags\/tim-flach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bird portraits<\/a> and projects centered around the human relationship with animals give us the chance to admire feathered and furry creatures up-close in striking compositions.<\/p>\n<p>Forthcoming from Abrams later next month, Flach\u2019s new book, Feline, celebrates our unending love for cats of all varieties. From domestic shorthairs to sleek purebreds to regal big cats, these beloved animals are captured in vibrant detail to illustrate their expansive range of textures, colors, sizes, and behaviors\u2014and don\u2019t forget the toe beans.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/flach-5.jpg\" alt=\"a photo by Tim Flach of a sleek, long-haired, orange-and-white cat as it stretches\" class=\"wp-image-461989\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Feline contains more than 170 photographs, including information about different breeds, their evolution, and why they\u2019ve captured our hearts and imaginations for millennia. \u201cFlach explores this deep, sometimes one-sided but always enduring bond, revealing the many identities of cats\u2014from their sacred status in ancient cultures to their viral superstardom in the digital age,\u201d the publisher says.<\/p>\n<p>Slated for release on October 21, you can pre-order Feline on <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/96\/9781419773648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bookshop<\/a>. See more of Flach\u2019s work on his <a href=\"https:\/\/timflach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a>, and follow updates on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/timflachphotography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/flach-8.jpg\" alt=\"a photo by Tim Flach of a sleek, long-haired, white cat\" class=\"wp-image-461992\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/flach-10.jpg\" alt=\"a spread from the book 'Feline' by Tim Flach featuring a photo of a leaping orange cat\" class=\"wp-image-461993\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/flach-3.jpg\" alt=\"a close-up photo of a cat's eye and nose by Tim Flach of\" class=\"wp-image-461987\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/flach-4.jpg\" alt=\"a photo by Tim Flach of a spotted wild cat\" class=\"wp-image-461988\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/flach-9.jpg\" alt=\"a spread from the book 'Feline' by Tim Flach featuring a photo of a cat's paw pads\" class=\"wp-image-461994\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/flach-6.jpg\" alt=\"a photo by Tim Flach of a lion's scrunched face\" class=\"wp-image-461990\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/flach-7.jpg\" alt=\"a photo by Tim Flach of a sleek, hairless, gray cat running on a wheel\" class=\"wp-image-461991\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/flach-1.jpg\" alt=\"the cover of the book 'Feline' by Tim Flach featuring a photo of a cat with a mask-like black spot over its eyes\" class=\"wp-image-461985\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Hide advertising<\/p>\n<p>Save your favorite articles<\/p>\n<p>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Receive members-only newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through the lens of Tim Flach, exotic bird species, farm animals, and our canine companions brim with personality.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[264,307,304,305,306,15406,308,93,61,60,2272,16052],"class_list":{"0":"post-17464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-cats","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-portraits","19":"tag-tim-flach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}