In this book the work of eight photographers offers a historical and cultural excursus that regards the animal as a photographic subject ranging from Fulvio Roiter's serene and evocative peaceful pictures, including one of a sanctified lion in an archaeological mosaic, to Armin Linke's dramatic coverage of the "chained" animal in the obscurity of a place of torture, Antonio Biasiucci's compassion in his cathartic, somber close-ups where what interests him is not the beauty of the animal but the life that emerges from the half shadows. The questioning expression and the movement of the body in Francesco Raffaelli's photos hint at their distress. Roberto Salbitani proposes his apocalyptic landscape of animal "residues", countered by Paolo Gioli's stenopoeic and photofinish challenge, the dramatic accentuation of the design of humanized features in Maurizio Orrico's graphic elaborations, up to Marco Miré's animals invented on the computer and videoanimated