Nick Brandt's unforgettable photographs inA Shadow Falls,a much anticipated collection of new work created since the publication of his enormously successfulOn this Earth(2005), portray the great animals of East Africa. Brandt comes to lions, elephants, giraffes, and gorillas with the same empathy that other artists reserve for human subjects. His photographs, writes Jane Goodall, arouse deep emotions. It's almost impossible to look through his work without sensing the personalities of the beings whom he has photographed. Out of this yearning for communion with our closest relatives in nature, Brandt achieves images that are, in the words of photographer Mary Ellen Mark, both Oepic and iconic. A Shadow Fallsreproduces 58 neverbefore-published images in stunning, oversized tritone plates. Philosopher Peter Singer and photography historian Vicki Goldberg explore the significance of Brandt's photographs, and Brandt gives his own account of his work in Africa.