compelling portrait project of italian greyhounds and yeah, i've seen quite a few given i have one of my own!
James
(correction, whippets. ah well. similar nonetheless)
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4 comments:
it's funny, by looking at these images I realize that these dogs are a kind of very "graphic" animals ... this body shape is just impossible !... spider-dogs
"My work with the British show Whippet - a dog bred to an ideal standard - focuses particularly on the evolution of the visual image of the Whippet, and the construction of human identity through the shaping of the figure of the dog."
I'm don't fully grasp his statement. I'm a little confused about how the work shows "the construction of human identity through the shaping of the figure of the dog." Was anyone else confused by this statement?
The posture and muscle tone these animals possess is absolutely beautiful.
lean and beautiful..built for speed. I like the repetition with the squares and circles. The animals are the same size and shape throughout and the dyptichs/tryptichs are clean and pleasing.
I had an uncle who ran a greyhound farm in oklahoma where i grew up. I realize this are whippets, greyhounds are very similar. Greyhounds by nature are hyper-active, but also very sweet. Lots of greyhound farmers, like my uncle, raise crops and livestock as well. Coyotes are a nusiance and danger to calves and other offspring of livestock. My uncle Lynn used his greyhounds to hunt coyotes by driving a truck to a high spot in a field and calling the coyotes in with a cassette with dying rabbits on it. When the coyote would come within seeing distance, could be as far as 300 yards, he would release 2 or 3 greyhounds. The greyhounds would tear the coyote to pieces.
I was pretty young, maybe 8 or 9 but i remember thinking to myself that the greyhounds enjoyed the chase but not the kill. They would return covered in coyote blood, looking sad and solemn somehow. Maybe I was just projecting my own feelings but I'm not sure.
I am drawn to the images of the "piles of dogs next to each other layered together forming clusters of dog parts that beautifully connect and intersect each other. Also, I love the images of the human form laying on the couch with the dogs. It makes me think about the human connection we have with dogs.
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