Love Immortal: Antique Photographs and Stories of Dogs and Their People [Hardcover]

An artfully designed compendium of 200 antiquarian photographs, all published here for the first time in this beautiful coffee table bookincluding daguerrotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, and sepia and black-and-white imagesculled from the private collection of longtime antiques collector, dealer, and appraiser Anthony Cavo, accompanied by an entertaining mix of historical anecdotes, true stories about dogs, excerpts from literature, letters, quotes, and fun facts.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of ones soul remains unawakened.Anatole France

Dogs have been beloved companions since the dawn of humankind. With the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, this love was immortalized for the first time on film. While the clothing and the hairstyles of yesteryear may be very differentand intriguing to the modern eyein these photos, the evident love between pet and owner is unmistakable, and remains as poignant today as when these images were taken.?

An avid collector of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs for more than fifty years, Anthony Cavo has amassed an enormous catalog of antique photography, including hundreds of shots of people and their dogs. From this huge array, he has carefully curated 200 extraordinary pictures. These vintage dog photos were taken from approximately 1840 to 1930 and offer a wide display of both candid and formal studio poses. Cavo arranges his subjects thematically and combines different photographic formats and images from different eras to create visual interestwhether the mix features a particular breed, a selection of images in shadow, or two images identical in pose but taken decades apart or in vastly different locations.

In his introduction, Cavo offers a personal overview of this incredible treasury, which provides background on his lifelong experience as a collector and dog lover as well as touches briefly on the history of photography and its variló¶