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The Dog's Book Of Romance Ledher, Kate
Andrews McMeel 2005 0740754815 / 9780740754814 Hardcover, DJ, New copy Lisa Sachs
Dogs are known for their loyalty and affection, but do these consummate companions have anything to teach us about romantic love? From the pages of The Dogs' Book of Romance, it's clear they do. In this dazzling collection of lush, full-color photographs, extraordinary canine couples reveal with wit and wisdom just what it takes to make romance last a lifetime. Photographer Lisa Sachs presents an array of gorgeous dog duos-from bulldogs to beagles-as they nuzzle, snuggle, and lavish each other with tender loving care. The captions of advice that accompany each photograph offer heartfelt and humorous reminders about how to keep the sparks flying in an intimate relationship.
* "Declare your affection," depicted by a Jack Russell terrier who's sweet on a Doberman pinscher.
* "Keep telling the story of how you met,' depicted by a pair of doting corgis.
* "Stay awake for pillow talk," depicted by two Westies about to hit the sack.
* "Intimacy begins when you let down your guard," depicted by a yellow and a black Lab as they work through relationship issues.
About the Author
Sisters-in-law Kate Ledger and Lisa Sachs present The Dogs' Book of Romance as the much-awaited follow-up to their successful debut, The Cats' Book of Romance. Currently at work on a novel, Kate holds an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Arizona. Lisa, a graduate of Yale's master of fine arts program in photography, has shown her art in galleries in New York and Paris. She works as a freelance photographer in Washington, D.C.
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101 Salivations Rachael Hale
Bullfinch Press 2003 0821228579 / 9780821228579 New Hardcover
Anyone who loves dogs knows that they have their own unique personalities-they may be brave or timid, placid or hyper-but they're always soulful. In this collection of 101 arresting four-color portraits, Hale manages to capture the essential doggishness of her subjects, whether it's Hamish the Chihuahua's minuscule, quizzical face or the quiet intelligence of Loki, a Staffordshire bull terrier mix, sitting patiently with a kitten on his head. Though there are a few gratuitous props-a knitted cap on a Gordon setter, a pearl necklace on a Chinese Crested-the photographs don't descend into the realm of the kitschy and too-cute, partly because the dogs' expressive faces are the focus of the compositions. Hale tosses a few relevant quotes into the mix as well, e.g., Walt Whitman's "The dog is the god of frolic," and P.G. Wodehouse's "It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up." The appendix, which gives a brief description of each dog's story, adds dimension to the photographs. We learn, for example, that Jabba, an eight-year-old pit bull, is just as shy as she looks. During the shoot, Hale says, she "ran terrified from the room...frightened by a fly."
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A Pony in the Picture: Vintage Portraits of Children and Ponies Victoria Randall
Ten Speed Press, 2007 1580088813 / 9781580088817 New Hardcover
Children everywhere have always loved ponies. Those lucky enough to grow up with horses invariably recall them as the keepers of their happiest childhood memories. But for most, a brief ride on a rented pony was the closest they would ever get to a horse of their own. A PONY IN THE PICTURE is an endearing collection of antique and vintage photographs of children posing proudly with ponies and horses, often taken by itinerant photographers who traveled the countryside, suburbs, and cities. Each image captures a moment in time when it seems that all it took for a child to attain sheer joy was the patient presence of a shaggy Shetland pony and a borrowed cowboy hat.
* A sweetly evocative collection of 120 photographic portraits of children and ponies, spanning 1880 to 1990.
* Chronicles the use of ponies as "props" in children's portraiture, and documents the development of photography and the popularity of keepsake photos over more than a century.
* All the photographs were taken in the United States and Canada, with striking exceptions from Burma, Buenos Aires, and Great Britain.
* A perfect gift for horse lovers and vintage photography collectors.
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Akita Breed Book Nancy Richmond
Hoflin 2005 0866670718 / 9780866670715 New Softcover
A well-written, thought-provoking book that takes an in-depth look at the Akita breed. With all the beautiful, one-of-a-kind illustrations, Akita fanciers will be wanting two of these books - one from which to display the wonderful prints and another to keep intact to be added to their Akita library. With its unique form of publication this book is every bit as much an Akita art book as it is an Akita breed book.
This book comes as close as it gets to giving the reader insight into the complex, powerful and enduring Akita.
232 pages softbound, large 8.5x11 size. Profusely illustrated with 64 frameable prints, most in color.
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Animal Antics - A Photo Expose Lund, John
Andrews McMeel 2002 0740727001 / 9780740727009 Hardcover, DJ, New copy 74 pages
Ever wonder what really goes on among our four-legged friends after we leave the room? In Animal Antics, the secret is finally out. The animals are having a ball - and reading this book, you will too. Cats ride scooters, ducks dance the cancan, beagles lounge at the spa, and, yes, dogs do play poker! Behind this shocking expose is veteran photographer (and digital-manipulation wizard) John Lund. Lund uses amazing digital sleight of hand to endow a menagerie of animals with eerily and uncannily human qualities. The text of the book is equally playful with tasty morsels of advice like "Learn to pamper your soul," "Sharpen your survival skills," and "Chill out as needed." Many of the images in Animal Antics have been featured in a best-selling greeting card line of the same name.
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Audubon's Elephant Duff Hart-Davis
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2003 029782967X / 9780297829676 Hardcover, DJ New copy
Illegitimate, half-French, half-American, poorly educated, chronically short of money and obsessed with birds, Audubon came to England in 1826 to find a publisher for his extraordinary paintings. He insisted that they must be reproduced on double-elephant folio paper - sheets almost 40 inches by 30 - so that even the largest species could be represented life size, and no-one in America had been prepared to tackle such a gigantic task. With his dramatic good looks and flamboyant Woodsman's clothes he attracted attention wherever he went. Drawing on Audubon's journals, letters to his wife and the archives of the families with whom he stayed and worked, Duff Hart-Davis recreates Audubon's twelve years in Britain in search of patrons and publishers. It is an extraordinary story of an obsessive genius and his observations of people, places and events in early nineteenth century England and Scotland.
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Bark and Ride Mark J. Asher
Andrews McMeel 2006 0740757032 / 9780740757037 Hardcover New
If dogs could drive, where would they go and what would they do?
Author and photographer Mark Asher sets out to answer these yet-pondered canine queries with Bark and Ride. With its full-color pictures, storytelling, and canine road signs, this collection of photographic creativity captures man's best friend in countless vehicles and comical situations.
We find a magnificent mastiff atop a tractor, plowing the fields for buried treasures; a bloodhound in a police car, patrolling the streets for deadbeat dog owners; and a precocious poodle at the helm of a trolley car, taking his friends for a downtown shopping spree.
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Betty and Rita Go to Paris Michael Malyszko
Chronicle Books 1st Edition 1999 0811823709 / 9780811823708 Hardcover, with DJ New copy
Two endearing canines meander through the streets of Paris. This is their own album of their Parisian adventures, and captures all the beauty of the city in wonderful black and white photographs. A trip to Paris can be a culturally enriching experience for anyone, even a pair of rambunctious pooches like Betty and Rita. And while they do soak in some of haute couture, Betty and Rita's main concern is good-old, down-home, butt-sniffin', roll-in-something-dead fun. These are two girls who know how to gnaw on the bones of life and suck out all the marrow.
The girls generously brought their favorite humans along with them on the trip. Michael Malyszko, whose work has been published in 40 countries, photographed the mad escapades while wordsmith Judith Hughes chronicled their trip through the City of Light.
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Blue Dog Love Rodrigue, George
Harry Abrams 0810982390 / 9780810982390 Hardcover New copy
Blue Dog Love is George and Wendy Rodrigue's valentine to each other and to the world. Wendy shares her recollections of falling in love-with the artist and with his creations-and George explains how his love for Wendy became the inspiration behind the 50 brilliant paintings and prints here. For longtime fans of Blue Dog, the book is an indispensable chapter in the ever-evolving Blue Dog story. For anyone who has ever fallen in love, it is a romance in words and pictures that's both inspiration.
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Blue Dog Man Rodrigue, George
Stewart Tabori & Chang 1999 1556709765 / 9781556709760 Hardcover New copy.
List Price $81.00.
Until now, little else could be said about George Rodrigue's mysterious, wildly popular icon. At long last, the Blue Dog Man, as Rodrigue calls himself, sheds light on his creation as he guides us through this remarkable collection of over sixty new Blue Dog paintings. Rodrigue takes us on an unprecedented narrated journey into the heart of a new Blue Dog generation, tracing the evolution of Blue Dog from her beginnings in Louisiana legends to her myriad forays into the dazzling, multi-chrome modern world. Blue Dog Man is more than a collection of Blue Dog tales; it is a moving account of the spiritual evolution of an artist and an enlightening commentary on today's changing world. "Blue Dog," says Rodrigue, "is nothing if not a journey." This book is an invitation to longtime fans and newcomers alike to join the Blue Dog in her exciting and most unusual odyssey.
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CANINE Duotone Photography Horenstein, Henry
Pond Pr 1st Edition 2000 0966677633 / 9780966677638 Hardcover, DJ New Copy
Slickly designed and printed in duotone, Canine features 50 photographs of different dogs-at play and at work, worried and cocky, flying through the air and napping on the sofa, at dog shows and just showing off. Interspersed with the pictures are appropriately quirky snippets of text, featuring such diverse sources as Richard Nixon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Mann, and dog trainers from the nineteenth century. This book is affordable and beautifully designed, with charming pictures by a well-known photographer and author. It will make a perfect gift for anyone with a special dog in his or her life and it will arrive in plenty of time for the holidays.
Henry Horenstein is the author of over 25 books for adults and children, including the classic text Black and White Photography (Little, Brown; 400,000+ copies sold) and Creatures (Pond Press, 1999). He lives in Boston and teaches photography at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
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Creatures Horenstein, Henry
Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2000 1556709862 / 9781556709869 Softcover New copy
A collection of captivating tritone images by noted photographer Henry Horenstein, Creatures is available for the first time in trade paperback.
Featuring 57 portraits taken at zoos, aquariums, and in the wild, Creatures presents readers with a surprising, sometimes unsettling, view of animals, exotic and domestic. With an artist's eye, Horenstein documents the startling commonality between man and beast. Horenstein's Creatures have been exhibited in New York, Boston, and Houston, and the photographer has sold several fine-quality prints from the project, including many of the smiling Beluga whale, sleeping California Sea Lion, and Hippopotamus amphibious, the cover image.
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Dead Meat Sue Coe
Four Walls Eight Windows 1996 156858041X / 9781568580418 Softcover New
Political artist Coe spent years visiting slaughterhouses and meat farms in the U.S., Canada and England. Although she was not allowed to photograph on the premises, she was permitted to draw and sketch, and much of this work is jarringly graphic.
Coe's illustrations, which appear regularly in such publications as the New York Times and the New Yorker, have the sharply lined, affecting realism of a Diego Rivera mural. Her first-person account is matter-of-fact, thoughtful and engaging. Coe's book is political, and she clearly hopes it will make readers think twice about what they put into their mouths, but she does not preach and is unafraid to confront her own complicity: "Every dollar I get drips with blood too," she writes. Her empathetic rendering of the workers she encounters is reminiscent of Studs Terkel at his best, and the parallels she draws between society's treatment of meat animals and its working classes are disturbing and convincing. Cockburn's introductory essay traces the history of the meat industry with his customary shrewd sociopolitical insight, but without falling into polemics. Dead Meat will appeal not just to those interested in animal rights, but to anyone who cares about how society functions.
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Dog Dogs Elliott Erwitt
Phaidon Press Inc 2004 0714838055 / 9780714838052 Softcover New Copy, some shelfwear and a sticker residue mark on spine
Nearly every one of the 500 black-and-white pictures in this book is a miraculous blend of composition and content, placing photographer Elliott Erwitt right up there with the other postwar, 20th-century masters of moment and meaning. Erwitt writes in his introduction, "This is not a book of dog pictures but of dogs in pictures." It is the photograph that counts, above and beyond its subject, for the photographer of genius. But Erwitt is bound to be called a sentimentalist because he photographs dogs, whom we, in our species-centric way, tend to think of as, well, animals. If Erwitt proves anything, however, it is that our close relationship with these furry fellow travelers is due to mutual resemblance. There is a Native American myth that when the world was created, a great fissure began to split the earth. Humans were caught on one side of the chasm, animals on the other. The dog, however, seeing the gap widen, leaped across to the human side, where he has been ever since. This book captures the pleasures of our loyal, dependent friends, as well as their sorrows and disappointment when they are forced to adapt to human callousness, neglect, or even love. Erwitt sees the dignity of the ankle-high Chihuahua; the anxiety of the homeless hound; the smugness of the adored dachshund, sitting on its chaise longue in the noonday sun; the patience of the pom-pommed poodle; and the gormless joy of a homely but well-loved pug. In his vast range of emotion, and in his easygoing but precise mastery of the abstract elements of composition, Elliott Erwitt has made himself the Cartier-Bresson of the canine world
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Dog Show Russell, Molly and Vivian
Andrews Mcmeel 0740742191 / 9780740742194 Hardcover, DJ, New copy
Armed with backstage passes, mother-daughter photographers Vivian and Molly Russell traveled dog shows across the globe to capture the intimate photographs within Dog Show. This remarkable insider perspective gets to the heart of people's love affair with their dogs and our fascination with these shows, which celebrate this special bond. The carefully selected blend of full-color and black-and-white photographs within Dog Show highlight the tender relationships between people and dogs. It is often remarked that dogs and their owners resemble one another. Many of the photographs in this book bear witness to this curious yet touching phenomenon. A visual feast of character, eccentricity, humor, and charm, Dog Show is a must for any dog lover.
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Dogma: A Way Of Life Levin & Salmon
Andrews McMeel 2002 0740727079 / 9780740727078 Hardcover, DJ New copy
In her previous books, photographer Kim Levin touchingly chronicles our affection for dogs in evocative images and words. Now she's applied her creative energy to Dogma, an attractive volume that details a dog's life. More important, Dogma is a code of living for dogs by dogs. But humans just might want to pay attention, too - Dogma presents seemingly innocent lessons that would be valuable for everyone to learn. Throughout Dogma, canines of all varieties demonstrate the good life in entertaining photos by Levin and carefree maxims written by Erica Salmon.
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Dogs Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Cassell 2006 1844035425 / 9781844035427 Hardcover New
Celebrate man's - and woman's - best friend with an extraordinary assemblage of color photography that captures the beauty, playfulness and boundless affection of our beloved canine companions. More than 220 pedigreed dog breeds are represented in this special portrait collection, which also offers accompanying text that details the history, physical characteristics, personality traits, work and sporting uses of the breeds, and gives insights into the bonds between dogs and their humans.
Many rare breeds are included, from the water-loving Pont-Audmer Spaniel to the protective Iceland Shepherd. The major groups are featured, including the Terriers, Scent and Sight Hounds, Companion and Toy dogs, Sporting Dogs, Herders, and Primitive types. Masterfully portrayed by internationally renowned photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, whose book of aerial photography Earth from the Air has sold nearly one million copies, these wonderful photographs remind us of just why, no matter their size or shape, we truly love our dogs.
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