NONFICTION - Oct. 6, 1996

ZOO by Britta Jaschinski (Phaidon: $19.95, 75 pp.). When Britta Jaschinski turns her camera on animals in zoos, the upshot is at once brilliant and edgy. Each black-and-white photograph will draw you in and then jar you. This photographer’s shots reflect animals who look past cages and fences, beyond bipeds pointing and slopping ice cream, yonder to what must appear as a godless sky. Here we see the hopelessness of incarcerated animals, from San Diego to London to Hamburg. That zooed look will haunt you.