Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement by Gary L. Francione Temple University Press, 366 pages, $ 59.95 cloth, $ 22.95 Anyone
whose image of the animal rights movement is one of nasty - tempered radicals who bomb laboratories and spray paint on fur coats will be in for a....
Not exact matches
Working with editor Masahiro Kirakubo (
whose credits appropriately include Danny Boyle's similarly jittery «Transpotting»), von Einsiedel places his focus into a cinematic framework: Sweeping
images of nature and glimpses
of animal life combine with various genre tropes to create the impression
of an operatic tragedy with no clean end in sight.
As Aristotle wrote in Poetics, «We enjoy contemplating the most precise
images of things
whose actual sight is painful to us, such as the forms
of the vilest
animals and
of corpses.»
I am probably the only photographer in the world
whose catalog includes underwater
images of all
of the following: blue whales (the largest
animal ever to have lived), rare endangered Guadalupe fur seals, Pacific white - sided dolphins, socializing groups
of sperm whales, a newborn gray whale calf in the wild, humpback whale competitive («fighting») groups, the odd ocean sunfish (Mola mola), distant and pristine Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, and Olympic champion swimmers accompanied by wild dolphins.
In some
animals the parietal eye, which helps regulate circadian rhythms, is also located at the ajna chakra, tying Wilke's
image of the artist to the productive and fertile Changing Woman,
whose regenerative cycle from young to old is mirrored in a circadian analogy
of transition.