
Jo Longhurst: The Refusal (BAD ISBN DNU)
Publisher's Description
For several years, Jo Longhurst has been photographing
British whippets by bloodline, working
with top breeders in order to explore the exacting
and obsessive quest for the perfect show
dog. The shaping of the domestic dog has a
history in nineteenth-century eugenics, a
movement born out of the invention of the
photographic process. The Refusal questions
ideas of conformity and difference, breeding and
eugenics—the search for perfection. There is a
wealth of animal imagery in the history of art,
of animals as symbol, metaphor or allegory, yet it
is rare that they are represented as themselves.
Longhurst challenges this precedent. She
explores the intimate relationship between
dog and breeder, in which power, control, love
and desire are intertwined. As part of her
working process, Longhurst employs a variety
of photographic technologies that have been
used to record human portraits, from state-of the-
art to stereoscopic.
ISBN: 3865216064
Publisher: Steidl & Partners
Paperback : 56 pages
Language: English
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Publisher: Steidl & Partners
Paperback : 56 pages
Language: English