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*not a recipe Sugar, my dog, muse, and dead thing finder, happily appears in these photographs depicting how nature is as much a culture of death as it is of life. On the edge of great wilderness and wildness in Montana, nature and death, often hand in hand, are found just outside one's door.

The presence of an animal in the portrait of a person is one of the most popular ways of depicting the personality of the model in the world’s art. The animal’s features, sometimes funny, sometimes threatening, project onto the model, defining, and sometimes contrasting with how the viewer percepts it. A classical approach is to depict a commander mounted on horseback in a ceremonial portrait, or a bird as a symbol of soul in children’s ceremonial portraits of the Renaissance. At present, this approach is being developed within the genre of psychological art-portrait. Also, there is multiple social psychological research on the principles which influence the people’s choice of pets. The question whether the personality of the animal is similar to the temperament of the owner or the owner chooses a sort of “back-up” in the form of a pet in certain life circumstances still remains unsolved. However, the fact that the way the animals look matches and contributes to the image of the owner serves as kind of a prism through which we make judgments about him or her leaves no doubt. This series is an attempt to impersonalize the model as much as possible. What does the owner of this pet look like? How did he or she create this space? What is his or her life like? What are his or her interests? The viewer can only invent details – these portraits only depict the model’s belongings, not their faces.

The photographer Diane Arbus spoke about entering into people’s (actually strangers’) homes, “If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, ‘I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life.’ I mean people are going to say, ‘You’re crazy.’ Plus they’re going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that’s a reasonable kind of attention to be paid”. Pet Project, is a photographic portrait project of strangers, taken in the tradition of Arbus, I enter into peoples lives and homes. I do not know these people until the moment I begin to set up for the shot but during our time together I learn about them. I gather my subjects from the online community website Craigslist, a website where you can buy, sell or rant about anything under the sun. The ad reads: “Graduate student to photograph you and your pets, in your home for free.” Some of the subjects are found as I am walking down the street or sitting in a coffee shop. If they seem interesting, if the relationship between the owner and the pet excites me, I ask them to pose for me. Surprisingly, many of these strangers from the street contact me, invite me into their homes and the relationship begins. Who are these people who invite a stranger who solicited them over the Internet or on the street into their homes? But then again who am I to have the desire to do it? I am a voyeur who pleasures in the “sneak attack”, wearing the guise of photographer and armed with a camera. They are exhibitionists who want someone to see their private worlds and their most treasured possession their pets.

Cuando miro a los ojos de mi perro o de mi gato no veo a un "animal". Veo a un ser vivo como yo, a un amigo, a un alma que siente.

#evolución humana #doglover #dog

El establecimiento de lazos fuertes entre humanos y animales activa la atención, la interacción y el estado de ánimo de ambas especies. La mente de las mascotas también se favorece de una relación estrecha con su dueño.

#doglover #nationalgeographic #pet #dogeducation #family

"Being a photographer of dogs...I always felt there needed to be a more intelligent representation of the animal than the cute and fluffy images you tend to see online," says Martin Usborne - photographer, publisher, and now picture editor of a book called Really Good Dog Photography. A collaboratio

"Mi perro ha muerto. Lo enterré en el jardín junto a una vieja máquina oxidada. (...) Ahora él ya se fue con su pelaje, su mala educación, su nariz fría. Y yo, materialista que no cree en el celeste cielo prometido para ningún humano, para este perro o para todo perro creo en el cielo, sí, creo en un cielo donde yo no entraré, pero él me espera ondulando su cola de abanico para que yo al llegar tenga amistades. Ay no diré la tristeza en la tierra de no tenerlo más por compañero que para mí jamás fue un servidor. Tuvo hacia mí la amistad de un erizo que conservaba su soberanía, la amistad de una estrella independiente sin más intimidad que la precisa, sin exageraciones: no se trepaba sobre mi vestuario llenándome de pelos o de sarna, no se frotaba contra mi rodilla como otros perros obsesos sexuales. No, mi perro me miraba dándome la atención necesaria la atención necesaria para hacer comprender a un vanidoso que siendo perro él, con esos ojos, más puros que los míos, perdía el tiempo, pero me miraba con la mirada que me reservó toda su dulce, su peluda vida, su silenciosa vida, cerca de mí, sin molestarme nunca, y sin pedirme nada. (...) Y no hay ni hubo mentira entre nosotros. Ya se fue y lo enterré, y eso era todo. "

Pablo Neruda

#dogs #perro #poesía #poema #doglife #doglover #pablo neruda

Su lugar favorito es donde estemos.

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No hay nada como la franqueza que encuentras en la cara de un perro, no simulan ni tienen miedo de ser fotografiados. Una lección para toda nuestra cultura, donde la vanidad y la validación social constante son el status quo.

Elias Weiss Friedman

#dog #photgraphy #dogcam #dogselfie

#dogsnetflix #documentary #doghistory

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