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Picturing dogs, seeing ourselves : vintage American photographs / Ann-Janine Morey.
De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morey, Ann-Janine, author.
- Series:
- Animalibus ; Volume 4.
- Animalibus ; Volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography of dogs.
- Human-animal relationships--United States.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Dogs--Symbolic aspects--United States.
- Dogs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Explores antique photographs of people and their dogs to expand the understanding of visual studies, animal studies, and American culture. Uses the canine body as a lens to investigate the cultural significance of family and childhood portraits, pictures of hunters, and racially charged images"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The visual rhetoric of everyday people
- The dog on the table : from the great Gatsby to the great white middle class
- The gaze outside the frame
- Family portraits
- Hunting pictures and dog stories
- Women cross the line.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271065700
- 0271065702
- OCLC:
- 917561345
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