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The Year of the Dogs
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- Chronicle Books Digital
- Pubblicato:
- Sep 17, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781452182094
- Formato:
- Libro
Descrizione
Discover the stunning collection of photographs that shows the majesty, playfulness, and joy that is man's best friend: As a National Geographic photographer, taking pictures of lions, tigers, and bears was a regular day's work for Vincent Musi, but in 2017 he gave himself a new challenge: dogs. Using the same lighting and photographic techniques he uses for his National Geographic photography, Musi spent a year shooting portraits of dogs and compiling them into a book complete with all of the tail wags, wet noses, and dogs of all shapes and sizes.
• Features over 100 dogs in a series of exquisite photos with close-ups, profiles, and full body shots along with a narrative about each dog
• Presented in an elegant package that properly showcase the vitality of Musi's photos
• Vincent J. Musi is a popular speaker, National Geographic photographer, and owner of the Unleashed Studio. He resides in South Carolina
With delightful and informative bios displayed next to each portrait, The Year of the Dogs will have you entertained and doggedly coming back for more.
Makes an excellent coffee table book for casual browsing and to inspire happy conversations about dogs. The Year of the Dogs will be the go-to gift book for dog lovers of all ages.
Informazioni sul libro
The Year of the Dogs
Descrizione
Discover the stunning collection of photographs that shows the majesty, playfulness, and joy that is man's best friend: As a National Geographic photographer, taking pictures of lions, tigers, and bears was a regular day's work for Vincent Musi, but in 2017 he gave himself a new challenge: dogs. Using the same lighting and photographic techniques he uses for his National Geographic photography, Musi spent a year shooting portraits of dogs and compiling them into a book complete with all of the tail wags, wet noses, and dogs of all shapes and sizes.
• Features over 100 dogs in a series of exquisite photos with close-ups, profiles, and full body shots along with a narrative about each dog
• Presented in an elegant package that properly showcase the vitality of Musi's photos
• Vincent J. Musi is a popular speaker, National Geographic photographer, and owner of the Unleashed Studio. He resides in South Carolina
With delightful and informative bios displayed next to each portrait, The Year of the Dogs will have you entertained and doggedly coming back for more.
Makes an excellent coffee table book for casual browsing and to inspire happy conversations about dogs. The Year of the Dogs will be the go-to gift book for dog lovers of all ages.
- Editore:
- Chronicle Books Digital
- Pubblicato:
- Sep 17, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781452182094
- Formato:
- Libro
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The Year of the Dogs - Vincent J. Musi
Introduction
The Year of the Dogs was never supposed to be about dogs.
In the spring of our son Hunter’s sixteenth year, my wife, Callie, and I realized that he was quickly turning into a grown-up and would be leaving the nest before we knew it.
Wanting to spend as much time as possible with Hunter before the metamorphosis was complete, I decided to forgo all assignments that involved travel, which was pretty much all assignments. There are no National Geographic photographers who work from home that I know of; travel to the places you are photographing is pretty much a mandatory kind of thing.
So, I reinvented myself as a dog photographer and built a studio in the back of a pet-food store. I named it The Unleashed Studio and announced that I was looking for a few good dogs. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. My colleagues felt bad for me and wondered if I was losing it. I started to wonder myself.
Callie knew I couldn’t do this by myself. A great photographer, she put her own work on hold and began to help, becoming my overworked photo assistant, expert dog wrangler, and personal psychiatrist. Hunter pitched in as well with helpful critiques of the photographs and clever ideas like challenging me to write stories and post them to Instagram.
‘Nobody cares about other people’s dogs,’ I said.
I was wrong about that.
We’ve received the kindest reaction from all over the world to these fabulous dogs.
People write to me when they laugh, when they cry, when they accidentally spit out their morning coffee over a joke or photograph. I read every comment, message, and email, and am humbled by the connection we have made.
And they are more than virtual friends. Many routinely travel hundreds or even thousands of miles with their dogs to be photographed in our studio. We are very grateful to them for sharing their dogs with us on Instagram, and now here with this book.
– VJM
Murphy
In the interest of full disclosure, I do not have a dog. A friend challenged me recently: ‘How can you be doing this The Year of the Dogs thing when you don’t even have a dog?’
My retort is simple – I’ve photographed many animals: bears, elephants, tigers, lions, sheep, and pigs . . . Incredibly, some of them were even kept as pets, but I don’t have any of those either.
Maybe I never got over the death of my childhood dog, or I’ve lived in too many weird apartment buildings. Whatever the reason, I am dogless. Yet dogs are no strangers at our home. Our front porch famously graced the cover of a coffee-table book about porch dogs, complete with a photograph of a dog that was not ours sitting on our porch.
I can say without hesitation that if I did have a dog, I would be lucky to have one as cool as Murphy. He’s a family dog, good with his paws, and has just enough scruff to be considered authentic. He’s a venerable first-generation labradoodle closing in on fourteen years of age. A loyal and friendly sort with a firm paw-shake, he needs no help opening or closing the front door of his home.
He’s welcome on our porch any time.
Daria
Daria was a flight risk. She’d traveled across multiple state lines to get to our studio, yet we didn’t see it coming.
We work from a patch of concrete in a very active 43,000-square-foot open-plan warehouse that is divided into territories like the strategy board game Risk. I currently have an alliance with a company that renovates homes; they have amassed nearly a thousand thirty-eight-gallon water heaters on our sovereign border to the south. To the north is a formidable artillery of salvaged street bricks and stacks of recycled wood. We are at peace. Daria’s entrance, planned weeks in advance, was greeted with the fanfare reserved for chow chows of her stature – similar to that of a head of state or other visiting dignitary. All seemed to be going perfectly as she reviewed the studio and personnel on hand, but then she discovered a squirrel hiding behind the water heaters.
Daria launched an immediate and thorough assault on the fugitive squirrel, which had, by then, successfully navigated a labyrinth of reclaimed flooring and hand-hewn beams to the open front door and was miles away.
In her mind though, Daria never let go of that squirrel. She viewed me and Callie as complicit in the escape and not to be trusted – regardless of how many individually wrapped slices of low-fat American cheese Callie might have had folded up in her pocket.
Leashes were used at times, photographs were taken occasionally, and the squirrel has not been seen since.
Mary Anne
Some time ago, I was honored with a very nice profile on my work with animals in a local magazine. Not so much the dogs, but lions, tigers, bears, and that sort of thing.
Daniel works at a local eatery where the magazine can be found. Prior to seeing my profile, he didn’t know what I did for a living except order margaritas and Mama’s special soup.
He was one of the few people who did not congratulate me on the article. It’s his way, and I kind of like him for it. He simply said, ‘What about photographing my dog, or is she not wild enough for you?’ And so it was that, a few days later, Mary Anne showed up in the studio.
She’s sturdy and athletic with a no-nonsense personality, much like Daniel, except she’s not from Ecuador like he is.
Hailing from a shelter in Greenville, South Carolina, three-year-old Mary Anne is from ‘off’, as the locals might say here. An upstate dog with a negligible accent, she’s the probable love child of a boxer
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