Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves Vintage American Photographs

• Main Author: Morey, Ann-Janine
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: University Park, PA Penn State University Press 2014; Pennsylvania State University Press
• Edition: 1
• Series: Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures
• Subjects: 19th Century; 20th Century; Criticism; Dogs; Dogs-Symbolic aspects-United States; HISTORY; Human-animal relationships; Human-animal relationships-United States; Modern; PHOTOGRAPHY; Photography / Criticism; Photography of dogs; Social History; Symbolic aspects; United States; United States
• ISBN: 0271065702; 9780271065700; 0271063319; 9780271063317
• DOI: 10.1515/9780271065700

Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life—family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love—as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination,...