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5%OFFFrank Noelker - Captive Beauty - 9780252071690 - V9780252071690
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Captive Beauty

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Description for Captive Beauty Paperback.
The fifty color photographs in Frank Noelker's Captive Beauty are not simple, uncomplicated shots of animals in zoo settings; there is an ambivalence in them that only gradually envelops the viewer. Their sad, stark beauty confronts viewers, challenging them to consider the nature, purpose, and effects of zoos. Captive Beauty includes a short epigraph by the photographer.
 

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071690
SKU
V9780252071690
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About Frank Noelker
Frank Noelker is an associate professor of art at the University of Connecticut. His photographs of animals in zoos have been widely exhibited, both in solo and group exhibits, and are included in the permanent collections of a number of museums. He has published a limited-edition portfolio, Animals.Jane Goodall, a National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence and founder of the Jane Goodall ... Read more

Reviews for Captive Beauty
"Frank Noelker's work makes a powerful statement. It is both beautiful and profoundly disturbing. He has captured, in this series of portraits, the very essence of the problem of zoos... This book is not intended as an indictment against all zoos, but rather as a plea for greater understanding of the animal beings within them."
Jane Goodall, from the ... Read more

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