Not exact matches
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Though
images of starving children or ferocious wild
animals still linger in the public's perception
of Africa, they are no longer reflective
of Africa's breadth
of industry and culture.
An avid landscape photographer, Ellen knew she had the talent and motivation, especially if it meant helping homeless
animals find responsible, loving homes, but she knew getting dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens to sit
still in order to capture the true essence
of their personality in a single
image wouldn't be a walk in the park.
Critics have argued that some tactics employed by
animal advocates, including protests, risk turning public opinion against the
animal advocacy movement.212 While these activities make up a small proportion
of THL's work, they do organize and participate in protests and demonstrations.213 While THL carefully targets their protests with specific goals in mind and tries to project a professional
image through their protests, it's possible that they could
still draw negative governmental attention or lower public opinion
of advocates.214
So vast are the differences between the developing world and the US today, one must reach back to
images of American cities in the 1800's for comparison: an age when horses were
still the primary mode
of transportation, when domestic
animals of all species often ran free, and garbage collection hadn't yet begun.
[8] Even though many today's artists
still create
images of animals to simply celebrate their beauty, the current interest in
animal imagery seems intensified by our increasingly uneasy relationship with nature and its denizens.
A wall - sized aerial view
of the Sahara desert has almost infinite detail due to the high resolution capacities
of digital imaging, but it remains an enigmatic landscape; an
image of women playing cards on an evening street in Hong Kong taken without flash would have been impossible without recent advances in photographic technology; a
still life
of aquatic plants and
animals reveals what is otherwise hidden beneath the ocean surface; and
images of border crossings depict territorial differences that are materially invisible.