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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.
Book Description
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.?
Dog Shows, 1930-1949
Dog Shows, 1930-1949,Richard Morgan,Eric Rachlis,Bert Morgan,Chronicle Books,0811826872,Dog shows,Dogs - General,Pets,Photography of dogs,Pictorial works,United States,Non-Classifiable
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