Amelia is fourteen years old. In many ways, she is your average American teenager: since she was three years old, she has been her mothers muse and the subject of her photographs. However, not every mom is a world-class photographer with a predilection for photographing animals. And its not every teenager who has portraits of herself with elephants, llamas, ponies, tigers, kangaroos, chimpanzees, and endless dogs, cats, and other animalsportraits that hang in the collections of major art museums around the world. Amelia and the Animals is Robin Schwartzs second monograph featuring this collaborative photographic series dedicated to documenting her and Amelias 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 didnt 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 motherdaughter journey into invented worlds, of fables they enact together. Schwartz concludes, Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary.
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Weight: 1000g
Dimensions: 216 x 273mm
Publication Date: 06 Oct 2014
Publisher: Aperture
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781597112789
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Robin Schwartz earned an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute and her photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art both New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Brooklyn Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk Virginia; Bibliothèque Nationale Paris; and Museum Folkwang Essen Germany. She is an assistant professor of photography at William Paterson University and lives in New Jersey with her husband Robert Forman daughter Amelia and five companion animals. Robin Schwartz earned an MFA in photography from Pratt Institute and her photographs are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art both New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Brooklyn Museum; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk Virginia; Bibliothèque Nationale Paris; and Museum Folkwang Essen Germany. She is an assistant professor of photography at William Paterson University and lives in New Jersey with her husband Robert Forman daughter Amelia and five companion animals. Amelia Paul Forman is a high schooler animal lover and aspiring biologist. She writes draws photographs and travels. Donna Gustafson is the Andrew W. Mellon Liaison for Academic Programs and Curator at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University and a member of the graduate faculty in art history. Her recent exhibitions include Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc and at/around/beyond.