Dog Shows: 1930-1950 - Tapa blanda

Morgan, Bert; Rachlis, Eric

 
9780811826877: Dog Shows: 1930-1950
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0811826872 ISBN 13: 9780811826877
Editorial: Chronicle Books, 2000

Sinopsis

A collection of photographs profiling the world of society dog shows in the 1930s and 1940s.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Críticas

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY A pioneer in the filed of professional photography, Bert Morgan (1904-1986) began photographing American high society--the Rockefellers, the Hearsts, the Kennedys--in the 1930s. But, until now, his work has never been collected in book form. "Dog Shows:1930-1949 features page after page of beautiful black-and-whites (from shows in Connecticut, Long Island, New Jersey and Manhattan) and includes rare documentation of, for example, Jacqueline Bouvier (aka Jackie Kennedy) as a toddler, with her family's Great Dane. Together, Morgan's well-preserved candids make up not just a documentary record of the shows but a social history of America's leisure class. TOWN AND COUNTRY "If only I could have been there" is the wish that stirs when viewing lovely images of times and places past. With your first glance at "Dog Shows, you may very well feel this wish has been granted. A collection of duotone photographs taken in the 1930s and '40s by the renowned society chronicler Bert Morgan, the book draws the reader into an enchanted, leisurely world: five-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier proudly clutches a Great Dane's leash at the Long Island kennel Club's annual show; W.A. Harriman stands by with his trio of black Labradors at the Long Island Retriever Trials; a Scottish terrier names Fala sits up and begs for his young master, Prince Harold of Norway. If "Dog Shows can't literally take us back to a vanished era, it is nonetheless a fine passport to remembrance--and a reminder that a dog's life can be pretty swell, after all.

Reseña del editor

This irresistible celebration captures dogs in their finest moments, at the charming and idiosyncratic society dog shows of the 1930s and '40s, when both dogs and owners were at their dapper best. Selected from the collection of the late, renowned society photographer Bert Morgan, these more than 150 exquisite duotone photographs evoke an era of refined leisure with the famous and fabulous-and their dogs-in competition and at home: eight-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier, Band-Aid on her knee, stands beaming on her front lawn with her enormous Great Dane; firehouse Dalmations line up at the Westminster Kennel Club's annual show; and descendents of Napoleon Bonaparte admire their distinguished pup on a park bench. Pedigreed pets vault walls, preen and promenade, all for the admiration of their owners-and the judges. Dog lovers and society watchers alike will enjoy this fun evocation of canine daring-do and gilded-age glamour.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Chronicle Books
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0811826872
ISBN 13 
9780811826877
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
192
Editor
Rachlis Eric
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
BigHub
3.52E+11
geral@bighub.store

Calle Alfonso XII
32
Huelva
21003
España