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  • Mary Ludington’s Dogs at Ella Sharp Museum

     

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    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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    Portuguese Water Spaniel

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    Border Terrier

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    Pembroke Welsh Corgi

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    Pharoh Hound

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    Australian Shepherd

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    Irish Terrier

    See more of Mary Ludington's dogs.

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

  • The Nature of Dogs by Mary Ludington

     

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    Kassi, The Doxie With Moxie, dropped Darby a note to let him know Mary Ludington's new book The Nature of Dogs comes out today. Ludington, who has been photographing dogs for over 10 years, has a unique approach towards her subjects; she aims to "make them more distant from us in order to reveal something new about them."

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    I never thought about our closeness to dogs blinding us to their true nature, and I admire Ludington's attempts to "bypass the sentimental layer" we impose on them. But judging from her photos, I think she's set herself an impossible task. Her images are so wonderful we simply fall in love with the dogs, hence blinding us to their true nature.   I guess that's the paradox of dogs and love and dog-love.

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    Anyway, the book looks gorgeous and right in time for Christmas. It would make a great hostess gift for a dog-lover too.

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