In this book, we encounter eleven different animals, including a fox, a beaver, and a polar bear. The images are a testament to and trace of a physical touch. The artist Michael Günzburger, together with the printer Thomi Wolfensberger, has developed a method to lithographically capture the imprint of an animal. Every single hair becomes visible: head, body, tail – the animals appear with an unprecedented immediacy. Their energy is physically palpable. The lithographs offer a new perspective on our contradictory relationship with those creatures that we admire and torment, fear and caress. "Contact" follows Günzburger's years of engagement with the drawing line, the line that separates and connects, that extracts details from the whole and thus enables an identity. There is a magic in these images.