John Divola - Dogs Chasing my Car in the Desert - Nazraeli Press 2004
From 1995 to 1998, Divola was working on a series of photographes of isolated houses in Southern California. As he meandered through the desert, a dog would occasionally chase his car. Sometime in 1996, he began to bring along a 35mm camera equipped with a motor drive and loaded with a fast and grainy b&w film. The process was simple: when he saw a dog coming toward the car, he would pre-focus the camera and set the exposure.
Contemplating a dog chasing a car invites any number of metaphors and juxtapositions: culture and nature, the domestic and the wild, love and hate, joy and fear, the heroic and the idiotic. It could be viewed as a visceral and kinetic dance.
48p - EN - 30,8x28,7cm - hardcover in dust-jacket - great condition
From 1995 to 1998, Divola was working on a series of photographes of isolated houses in Southern California. As he meandered through the desert, a dog would occasionally chase his car. Sometime in 1996, he began to bring along a 35mm camera equipped with a motor drive and loaded with a fast and grainy b&w film. The process was simple: when he saw a dog coming toward the car, he would pre-focus the camera and set the exposure.
Contemplating a dog chasing a car invites any number of metaphors and juxtapositions: culture and nature, the domestic and the wild, love and hate, joy and fear, the heroic and the idiotic. It could be viewed as a visceral and kinetic dance.
48p - EN - 30,8x28,7cm - hardcover in dust-jacket - great condition
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From 1995 to 1998, Divola was working on a series of photographes of isolated houses in Southern California. As he meandered through the desert, a dog would occasionally chase his car. Sometime in 1996, he began to bring along a 35mm camera equipped with a motor drive and loaded with a fast and grainy b&w film. The process was simple: when he saw a dog coming toward the car, he would pre-focus the camera and set the exposure.
Contemplating a dog chasing a car invites any number of metaphors and juxtapositions: culture and nature, the domestic and the wild, love and hate, joy and fear, the heroic and the idiotic. It could be viewed as a visceral and kinetic dance.
48p - EN - 30,8x28,7cm - hardcover in dust-jacket - great condition
