Man and beast
photographs from Mexico and India
by Mary Ellen Mark
Man and Beast presents an extended photo essay comprising images from Mexico and India that span some forty years. Many of the Indian images were taken while Mark was working on her classic book Indian Circus (1983), but most of the photographs have never been previously published. Infused with an unsentimental poignancy and a fully intentional anthropomorphism, Mark's photographs of animals, circus performers, children, and others are sometimes ironic, occasionally unsettling, but always remarkably engaging. Accompanying the images are a photographer's statement and a conversation between Mark and Melissa Harris, editor-in-chief of Aperture Foundation, covering Mark's lifelong passion for animals, her experiences photographing them in circuses with their trainers, and her efforts to portray the humanity of animals and the lurking beast within humans.
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Social life and customs, Human-animal relationships, Animals, Interviews, Animals (Philosophy), Anthropomorphism, Pictorial works, India, social life and customs, Mexico, social life and customs, Zoology, india, Zoology, mexico, Mark, mary ellen, 1940-2015, Animals, pictorial works, Photography of animalsPeople
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Man and beast: photographs from Mexico and India
2014, University of Texas Press
in English
- First edition.
0292756119 9780292756113
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