Mary Ludington’s Dogs at Ella Sharp Museum

Sixty-three prints of Minneapolis-based photographer Mary Ludington are on view at the Ella Sharp Museum in Jackson, Michigan.  The works come from Ludington's book The Nature of Dogs, a project in which she set out to "bypass the sentimental layer" we impose on dogs and "make them more distant from us in order to reveal something new about them."  As I said when I first wrote about her work, the nature of dogs that she reveals through her photographs just makes me feel more sentimental about them.  The paradox of dog-love.

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The Nature of Dogs is presented at the Ella Sharp Museum in partnership with Cascades Humane Society. The exhibition runs until November 26, 2011.