Amelia & the animals
By: photographs by Robin Schwartz ; foreword by Amelia Paul Forman ; essay by Donna Gustafson
Contributors: Forman, Amelia Paul; Gustafson, Donna
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781597112789
Subjects: Photography of children; Portraits; Girls; Pictorial works; Photography of animals; Human-animal relationships; Artistic Photography; Daughters
Other titles: Amelia and the animals
Description: "Amelia is fourteen years old. In many ways, she is your average American teenager: since she was three years old, she has been her mother's muse and the subject of her photographs. However, not every mom is a world-class photographer with a predilection for photographing animals. And it's not every teenager who has portraits of herself with elephants, llamas, ponies, tigers, kangaroos, chimpanzees, and endless dogs, cats, and other animals--portraits that hang in the collections of major art museums around the world. Amelia and the Animals is Robin Schwartz's second monograph featuring this collaborative photographic series dedicated to documenting her and Amelia's 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 didn't 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 mother-daughter journey into invented worlds, of fables they enact together. Schwartz concludes, "Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary."" -- Publisher's description