Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves

Contents

Preface: Some Words About the Pictures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Romancing the Dog

1 The Visual Rhetoric of Everyday People

2 The Dog on the Table: From The Great Gatsby to the Great White Middle Class

3 The Gaze Outside the Frame

4 Family Portraits

5 Hunting Pictures and Dog Stories

6 Women Cross the Line

Conclusion: The Dog in the Picture

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“Ann-Janine Morey's book is a treasure trove of photographs created by ordinary people. Together these document what Morey calls the ‘romance’ of dogs and humans—a story of love, domination, primitivism, and ‘Edenic longings’—embodied in the presence of the dog among humans.”

—Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa