Animal
Elliot Ross
Schilt Published
English
Hardcover
Edition of 10
112 pages
410 x 320 mm
2010
ISBN 9789053307304
American artist Elliot Ross was intrigued by the portrait of his late cat, which his wife put up on the wall in their house. The cat seemed to stare right at him. Ross wondered if the cat had consciously looked into the camera when the photo was taken. What was the cat thinking at the time? In what ways is the consciousness of an animal different from that of a human being? Ross turned his thoughts and questions into a project: Animal. Photographing animals from around the world, he discarded their surroundings afterwards to make these isolated and powerful portraits.
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About the Artist
Elliot Ross was born in Chicago in 1947. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1971. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in collections in the United States and abroad, including those of the Bibliothéque nationale de France, Paris; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium. His early, conceptual, process-oriented photography was included in the influential 1974 exhibition “Light and Substance,” curated by Van Deren Coke. His project “Animal” has been featured in fotoMAGAZIN (Germany) in its “Masterpieces of Photography” series, in Foto & Video (Russia), and in a number of other publications. His critically acclaimed books Animal, Other Animals, and Crows Ascending were released by Schilt Publishing (Amsterdam) in 2010, 2014, and 2024 respectively. A selection of work from his series “Animal Studies” was published in “Animalia,” an issue of the leading British literary journal Granta. In 2021, he provided the photographs for the Notting Hill Editions (UK) best-selling literary book On Cats: An Anthology with an introduction by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale). In 2024, a highly acclaimed solo exhibition of his work, “Elliot Ross: Seeing Animals,” was mounted at the Musée de la Photographie Charleroi. His work is represented in Amsterdam by Schilt Publishing Gallery.
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About the Publisher
Schilt Publishing and Schilt Gallery are respectively a publishing house specialised in high quality photography books, and a commercial gallery representing a wide range of top class artists from all over the world.
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