What the critics say about Robert Vavra and his work:
"Internationally acclaimed photographer Robert Vavra's story is amazing..."
-- CNN

"Robert Vavra...might well have been a character Ernest Hemingway invented for one of his books set in Spain...Vavra is elegant in the way people are when everything extraneous has been burned away by the fires and acids of a passionate life."
-- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

 "I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously..."
-- NORMAN MAILER

"Seldom is found in one person an author of Vavra's caliber, a photographer unparalleled and a sensitive chronicler of animal behavior..."
-- UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

"During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both write and photograph with the artistry of Robert Vavra."
-- JAMES A. MICHENER

"Vavra's photographs vault the travel barriers of our strange times..."
-- THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Vavra's pictures and words are emotional, romantic and grand."
-- COSMOPOLITAN

"I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet..."
-- LENI RIEFENSTAHL

"...exquisite photographs..."
-- THE WASHINGTON POST

"...the photographs are not only stunning artistic success, but more wonderfully, Vavra's writing is equal to his enterprise."
-- THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

"The focus is personal...poetic..."
-- NEWSWEEK

"...enlightening stories and pictures...what beautiful intimate close-ups."
-- ALFRED EISENSTAEDT

"...remarkable photos..."
-- BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB

"They are superb, totally unhackneyed..."
-- THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

"...superlative pictures..."
-- THE SATURDAY REVIEW

"...exquisite...confirms the existence of a pictorial genre that can only be called Vavra-esque - different in kind from all others."
-- JAN MORRIS, THE LONDON TIMES

"Each of them a masterpiece..."
-- THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER

"...glorious photographs singular in their artistry..."
-- PBS

"Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision."
-- PETER USTINOV

"Robert Vavra has moved the mighty and the masses. His photographs are so loved that most of his thirty-three books have never gone out of print, and the words in them have been translated into ten languages from Japanese to Swedish...Peter Ustinov called him an alchemist with his camera. Ernest Hemingway was his friend; Princess Grace of Monaco, Yehudi Menuhin, Ustinov and James Michener wrote his forewords. Michener says there is no better photographer. The book they did together, IBERIA, was more than a year on the New York Times best seller list..."
-- THE ADVOCATE AND GREENWICH TIMES

"...photographs of dazzling artistic beauty."
-- GOOD MORNING AMERICA

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