| dc.description.abstract | Akira Lippit wrote that animals and photographs produce similar liminal and phantasmatic effects going on
to assert that animals were, in many ways, ‘fleshy photographs’. In the 1960s, the ‘street’ photographer
Garry Winogrand, who, along with Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander, came to define a particular style of
American documentary photography, took a series of images in the zoos of New York city. Some of those
were published in the 1969 book The Animals. Not considered, at the time, to be a major contribution to the
canon and even dismissed by one critique as ‘snapshots’, these photographs of the zoo as street need to be
revisited in the light of our recently renewed artistic, ethical and intellectual engagement with non-human
animals and the spaces in which we place them.animals were,animals and the spaces in which we place
them. | en_GB |
