With little to do at work, I went into the Google Books repository of Life magazine and chose one at random. It was the edition from April 25, 1955, and along with a feature on the Davy Crockett craze and an update on the Salk polio vaccine, there was a two-page remembrance of the photographer Ylla.
Soon, I was searching for more information and looking for her photographs of animals, particularly (of course) cats.
A magazine article from 1950 called her the "world's greatest photographer of animals" and notes that "Ylla finds that kittens are co-operative subjects but mature cats are bored by noises and toys, blasé about food, must be handled patiently. She... is resigned to wasting a lot of film until she gets the right pose." Some things never change.
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