Passejant el gos (Un tribut a Keith Arnatt)
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Title
Passejant el gos (Un tribut a Keith Arnatt)
Shelfmark - 496.POR.SOROLLA
Subject
Portraiture
Description
“Walking the dog. A tribute to Keith Arnatt" it’s a project that pays tribute to the British artist on the occasion of the 40 years of his photographic series "Walking the Dog" (1979).
I tried to make a version of his work with the same characteristics as he did: 50 black and white analog square photos; with subjects -humans and dogs- looking at the camera; without any other living thing that could distract; shot it in the photographer’s town and with citizens as protagonists, in this case at La Roca del Vallès (Catalonia).
I do not intend to prove that ‘dogs look like their masters’ -or vice versa. Instead, I have been interested in finding attitudes that can conveying one to another, looking for the difference in similarity and trying to imagining stories and situations.
Keith Arnatt was inspired by August Sander’s portraits of men walking dogs (c.1914). I did not want to interpret or adapt Arnatt either, but I wanted to perpetuate his idea as purely as possible. This is a work that captures a longlasting concept. As Richard Dawkins named in "The Selfish Gene", a 'meme' is a cultural transmission unit that behaves with biological criteria. Then ‘taking photos of walking the dog' is a meme that survives, spreads and reproduces itself jumping from one brain to another over time.
Foreword by artist and professor Marta Juvanteny.
(Rolleiflex T camera / Ilford HP5+ film/ Adox Atomal 49 developer / Epson V800 scanner)
I tried to make a version of his work with the same characteristics as he did: 50 black and white analog square photos; with subjects -humans and dogs- looking at the camera; without any other living thing that could distract; shot it in the photographer’s town and with citizens as protagonists, in this case at La Roca del Vallès (Catalonia).
I do not intend to prove that ‘dogs look like their masters’ -or vice versa. Instead, I have been interested in finding attitudes that can conveying one to another, looking for the difference in similarity and trying to imagining stories and situations.
Keith Arnatt was inspired by August Sander’s portraits of men walking dogs (c.1914). I did not want to interpret or adapt Arnatt either, but I wanted to perpetuate his idea as purely as possible. This is a work that captures a longlasting concept. As Richard Dawkins named in "The Selfish Gene", a 'meme' is a cultural transmission unit that behaves with biological criteria. Then ‘taking photos of walking the dog' is a meme that survives, spreads and reproduces itself jumping from one brain to another over time.
Foreword by artist and professor Marta Juvanteny.
(Rolleiflex T camera / Ilford HP5+ film/ Adox Atomal 49 developer / Epson V800 scanner)
Creator
Joan Sorolla
Publisher
Self published
Date
2018
Format
Hard glossy cover, matte coated paper inside
Book Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
21 / 21 / 1,5
Number of Pages
58
Number of images
50
Edition Size
75
Place of Publication
Santa Perpetua de Mogoda (Barcelona)
Designer
Joan Sorolla
Editor
Joan Sorolla
Printer
Printcolor
ISBN
978-84-09-02333-2
Website
www.joansorolla.cat
URL Link to project
https://joansorolla.cat/passejant-el-gos-un-tribut-a-keith-arnatt
Where to buy
On demand (joansorolla@icloud.com)
Collection
Citation
Joan Sorolla, “Passejant el gos (Un tribut a Keith Arnatt),” Photo Book Cafe Archive, accessed April 30, 2025, https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/496.