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10. Photographs and Families in We Bought a Zoo and Our Zoo

verfasst von : Michael Lawrence

Erschienen in: The Zoo and Screen Media

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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In his influential essay ‘Why Look at Animals?’—originally published as ‘Why Zoos Disappoint’ in 1977—John Berger deploys a photographic simile to suggest the ‘impossibility’ of meaningful encounters with animals in zoos: ‘in the zoo’ he writes ‘the view is always wrong. Like an image out of focus’ (2009: 30, 33). For Berger, when animals were ‘withdrawn from daily life’, our relations with them changed: pets notwithstanding, animals were ‘co-opted into the family and into the spectacle’ as children’s toys and commercial images and the zoo became ‘an epitaph’ to man’s former relationship with animals, where ‘adults take children ... to show them the originals of their “reproductions”’ (30, 25, 33, emphasis in the original). …

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Titel: Photographs and Families in We Bought a Zoo and Our Zoo
verfasst von: Michael Lawrence
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Buch: The Zoo and Screen Media
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-54342-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-53561-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53561-0_10