Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Dogs Make Us Human: A Global Family Album - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Art Wolfe


Do we actually fall in love with dogs? The photographs within Dogs Make Us Human suggest that we certainly do. And it is no less clear that dogs fall in love with us.
Famed wildlife photographer Art Wolfe began photographing people and their dogs in 1984 when he visited Tibet for the first time. At the time, Lhasa was still very much a Buddhist and Tibetan city and, unlike today, it was still very remote. Wolfe remembers being struck by how different everything looked in the town, even the dogs. So he started taking photos, beginning with roundish little kids with roundish little dogs.
Over the years, as Wolfe travelled the world photographing wildlife and observing the vast diversity of human cultures, he could not help but notice that the bond between humans and dogs was universal. From hunting dogs in the forests of Venezuela to dogs accompanying Saharan herdsmen, they became a part of his observation of the world and the way he documents cultures, wild areas, and wild animals.
Selecting a hundred of his favourite photographs of dogs from around the world, Wolfe has teamed up with New York Times bestselling author, New Zealand-based Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson to create this extraordinary tribute to canine and human friendship. Divided into sections Love, Play, and Work (among others) Dogs Make Us Human offers deep insight into this most important, most delightful, and most mysterious symbiotic relationship.

Bloomsbury - $49.99

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