Art Shay (1922–2018)
Autor von Album for an Age: Unconventional Words and Pictures from the Twentith Century
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Art Shay was born in the Bronx, New York on March 31, 1922. He joined the Army Air Forces in 1943 and became a lead navigator during World War II under the command of the actor Jimmy Stewart. Shay flew more than 30 bomber missions and survived a deadly air battle in September 1944 in Kassel, mehr anzeigen Germany. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Croix de Guerre. In June 1944, he photographed a midair collision between two B-24 planes and sold the images to Look for $100. In 1947, he became a writer for Life magazine. He wrote more than 100 articles over the next four years before becoming a freelance photographer in 1951. His photographs have appeared in Life, Time, Look, Sports Illustrated and Fortune magazines. In 2017, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Lucie Foundation. He wrote more than 60 books including Album for an Age: Unconventional Words and Pictures from the Twentieth Century, My Florence: A 70-Year Love Story, and nonfiction children's books written under the name Arthur Shay. He wrote five plays including A Clock for Nikita and Where Have You Gone, Jimmy Stewart? He died of heart failure on April 28, 2018 at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: By Art Shay, Richard Shay - Art Shay, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21907357
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Shay’s photographs are not so much about animals as they are about the complex relationships among humans and animals. As he notes, we learn from and imitate each other. Most of the photographs illustrate parallels between humans and animals. Among my favorites are Big Tuna (a mafia chief) and the Chicago Art Museum lion, a charging bulldog in front of a howitzer, a woman in leopard coat passing in front of a leopard, society ladies with their poodles sporting “doggie” hairdos, and a woman and her dog window-shopping.
Although humans and animals appear together in many of the photos, clever placement of the photos are sometimes used to illustrate human and animal similarities. Examples include women alongside a sign saying “Hogs Are Beautiful” next to a picture of two men in suits crouching alongside hogs, and a picture of a beer drinking pig alongside a picture of a beer drinking man.
Even when a photograph could be said to be cute, as that of a poodle peeking out of a woman’s handbag, it illustrates an essential truth about the intimate relationships of humans and animals.
Some of the earlier photos were taken in the late 1940s and 1950s while the more recent shots were snapped in the 2000s, shortly before the publication of “Animals.” A few were not sharp and my old eyes could not make out what was happening without reading the caption that appeared at the end of the book. However, the technical quality of most of the photos varies from acceptable to quite good.
Shay reports that photographing “the creatures who share our world,” “takes patience....” The span of years involved in amassing this body of work attests to the veracity of his observation. Shay continues, “… [and] a flare for visual puns,” and I can report that his humorous photos often brought a smile to my face.
Having obtained “Animals” from the library, I now plan to purchase a copy for my personal library as I am sure I will enjoy browsing through it many times.… (mehr)