Robin Schwartz Amelia and the Animals

Amelia a aujourd'hui 15 ans ; sa mère, la photographe Robin Schwartz la fait poser avec des animaux depuis qu'elle a trois ans.
Ses clichés nous entraînent dans les jeux quotidiens de cette fillette au visage singulier, « proche des bêtes par sa taille, son hypersensibilité et l'ignorance de nos normes ». Les animaux y déploient librement leur affectivité, comme dans un conte de fées.

Summary

Amelia is 14 years old. In many ways, she is your average American teenager: since she was three years old, she has been her mother’s muse, and the subject of her photographs. However, not every mom is a world-class photographer with a predilection for photographing animals. And it’s not every teenager who has portraits of herself with elephants, llamas, ponies, tigers, kangaroos, chimpanzees and endless dogs, cats, and other animals--portraits that hang in the collections of major art museums around the world. Amelia and the Animals is Robin Schwartz’s second monograph featuring this collaborative series dedicated to documenting her and Amelia’s adventures among the animals. As Schwartz puts it, “Photography is a means for Amelia to meet animals. Until recently, she took these opportunities for granted. She didn’t realize how unusual her encounters were until everyone started to tell her how lucky she was to meet so many animals.” Nonetheless, these images are more than documents of Amelia and her rapport with animals; they offer a meditation on the nature of interspecies communication and serve as evidence of a shared mother–daughter journey into invented worlds.

Product details

• Authors: Lena Dunham, Amelia Paul Forman, Amelia Paul Forman, Robin Schwartz, Robin Schwartz
• Assisted by: Robin Schwartz (Photographs)
• Publisher: APERTURE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2014
• EAN: 9781597112789
• ISBN: 978-1-59711-278-9
• No. of pages: 138
• Dimensions: 220 mm x 280 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 1000 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; NATURE / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, natural history, Photographs: collections, Individual photographers, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Photographs: Portraits