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Back to the future
The Kennel Club presents an exhibition of images from a bygone era featuring much loved pups and their owners.
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Step aside from the fact you are reading this piece online, depart from the digital and celebrate the specialness of captured animal history in sepia tones. Generous benefactors and determined photo research over the last few years has brought about a prominent and classic collection of images from a bygone era featuring much loved pups and their owners. The Kennel Club presents the vintage exhibition Photography Going to the Dogs.
The temporal constants between then and now are obvious – our beloved pet friends fit very snug in portrait pictures, and the life of the owners they cohabit remain as complex and wondrous as ever but, it is ever changing role and aesthetic that allows for dreamy comparisons of what life in the past was like for dogs and the pedigree traits worth valuing, one commonality is that tails were for keeps.
More tangible goodies abound as the exhibition runs alongside the release of a published hardback to share 100 favourites from the collection. Back to the digital realm, you can preview the book through Blurb. Forgive the abundance of sepia, it has a longer shelf life than the silver used in black and white photography. Thank dog we have historians, protected archives, motivated curators and Libby Hall, her collection being a major feature of the exhibition.
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NB. The primary objective of the Kennel Club is to promote, in every way, the general improvement of dogs and furthermore to protect and promote the dog’s varied roles in society.
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Courtesy of the Libby Hall Collection / The Kennel Club Picture Library ©
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