The Polar Bear in the Zoo: A Speculation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590563915)

In The Polar Bear in the Zoo, Martin Rowe studies a photograph by the Canadian photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur in the context of her series We Animals and the portraits of several other photographers of captive animals. Rowe looks at how we come to the window to stare at the creatures, and the ways we frame our ideas about them within the exposure and capture provided by the photograph and the zoo. As part of his analysis, Rowe relates his own frames as an animal activist, his blind spots and effacements, and how the various tropes that are evoked in McArthur's photograph reflect our human tendency to honor the act of seeing--including our beliefs in the epiphanic--above our other senses, and our willingness to confront what we see or turn away.

Author: Martin Rowe
ISBN-10: 1590563913
ISBN-13: 9781590563915
Publisher: Lantern Publishing & Media
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2013
Pages: 298
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d