Research Catalog

Title

Spineless : portraits of marine invertebrates, the backbone of life / Susan Middleton ; foreword by Sylvia A. Earle.

Author

Middleton, Susan, 1948-

Publication

New York : Abrams, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Earle, Sylvia A., 1935-
• Holthuis, Bernadette V.

Description

254 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 32 cm

Summary

In Spineless, acclaimed photographer Susan Middleton explores the mysterious and surprising world of marine invertebrates, which represent more than 98 percent of the known animal species in the ocean. They are also astonishingly diverse in their shapes, patterns, textures, and colors--in nature's fashion show, they are the haute couture of marine life. This collection of more than 250 remarkable images is the result of seven years of painstaking fieldwork across the Pacific Ocean, using photographic techniques that Middleton developed to capture these extremely fragile creatures on camera. She also provides short essays that examine the place these invertebrates occupy on the tree of life, their vast array of forms, and their lives in the ocean. Scientist Bernadette Holthuis contributes profiles describing each species, many of them for the first time.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Middleton, Susan, 1948-
• Marine invertebrates > Pacific Ocean > Pictorial works
• Marine invertebrates > Pacific Ocean > Identification
• Nature photography
• Marine photography
• Underwater photography
• Marine invertebrates > Pacific Coast (U.S.)

Contents

Foreword / Sylvia A. Earle -- Introduction -- The tree of life : ancestral relationships -- Basic designs for living : body plans -- Unity and diversity : life activities -- Species profiles / Bernadette V. Holthuis -- About the photography -- Acknowledgments.

ISBN

• 9781419710070 (hbk.)
• 1419710079 (hbk.)

LCCN

2014930722

OCLC

890161635

Author

Middleton, Susan, 1948- author, photographer.

Title

Spineless : portraits of marine invertebrates, the backbone of life / Susan Middleton ; foreword by Sylvia A. Earle.

Publisher

New York : Abrams, 2014.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Earle, Sylvia A., 1935- writer of foreword.

Holthuis, Bernadette V., contributor.

Branch Call Number

779.3221 MIDDLETON