What do cats do when their human servants aren’t around? One Austrian photographer decided to find out, and ended up with a peculiar new series in the long photographic tradition of jumpology.
In 2010, photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek was asked to shoot a cat calendar. The Vienna-based artist began spending time with house cats, and over the course of months, found himself shooting a series of scenes of cats rocketing dramatically across rooms.
Published September this year, the un-retouched images are inspired by Philippe Halsman’s famous photograph Dalí Atomicus, says de Koekkoek. The iconic 1948 image shows Spanish artist Salvadore Dali apparently weightless, floating midair along with a chair, step-stool, easel, water and several cats. It took Halsman and Dali 28 tries to perfect the scene.
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