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(DUMAS, CHARLOTTE). Dumas, Charlotte. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2011. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (48pp), 20 color and 1 b&w illustration. Designed by Tessa van der Waals. "Since 2002, Charlotte Dumas has worked exclusively on photographic projects exploring the ways in which we use, define and relate to animals. Immediately following the attacks of 9/11, nearly one hundred trained search dogs and their handlers were deployed by FEMA to assist in the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Enlisted from a network of twenty-six task forces in eighteen states, the dogs worked around the clock alongside firemen and other teams sorting through the debris to locate survivors in the rubble. One decade later, Dutch photographer Charlotte Dumas succeeded in tracking down fifteen of the surviving dogs that took part in these rescue operations, visiting and photographing them at their homes throughout the US, where they all still lived with their handlers. Composed at close range in natural light, Dumas' powerful portraits - reproduced here in a thoughtfully designed paperback volume with Japanese binding - offer an intimate view into the everyday lives of these highly specialized working animals, now sharing the vulnerability of old age as they once pursued a common heroic goal". A brand new, pristine example of the first edition of this moving book (cited on pages 210-211 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III") limited to two thousand unnumbered copies that sold out immediately upon publication additionally SIGNED by Charlotte Dumas in black ink on the half title page. 0-9823653-6-5 Inventory Number: 023569