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23%OFFAnn-Janine Morey - Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs - 9780271063317 - V9780271063317
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Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs

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Description for Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs Hardback. Series: Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC; AGC; AJC; DSB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 206 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1157.

Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life—family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love—as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination, subservience, and violence. In Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves, Ann-Janine Morey presents a collection of antique photographs of dogs and their owners in order to investigate the meanings associated with the canine body. Included are reproductions of 115 postcards, cabinet cards, and cartes de visite that feature dogs in family and childhood snapshots, images of hunting, posed studio ... Read more

Animal studies scholars have long argued that our representation of animals in print and in the visual arts has a profound connection to our lived cultural identity. Other books have documented the depiction of dogs in art and photography, but few have reached beyond the subject’s obvious appeal. Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves draws on animal, visual, and literary studies to present an original and richly contextualized visual history of the relationship between Americans and their dogs. Though the personal stories behind these everyday photographs may be lost to us, their cultural significance is not.

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Product Details

Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures
Condition
New
Weight
1156g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271063317
SKU
V9780271063317
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ann-Janine Morey
Ann-Janine Morey is Associate Vice Provost for Cross Disciplinary Studies at James Madison University.

Reviews for Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs
“This is a lovely collection of vernacular 19th- and 20th-century images of dogs and their owners.” —Rebecca Onion Slate “Ann-Janine Morey's book is a treasure trove of photographs created by ordinary people. Together these document what Morey calls the ‘romance’ of dogs and humans—a story of love, domination, primitivism, and ‘Edenic longings’—embodied in the presence of the dog among ... Read more

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