Dogs, Portraits and Objects

This is the set of 3, Dogs, Portraits and Objects, a three-volume collection of Neil Winokur’s work, is a series of bold, striking and intimate studies of both the ordinary and extraordinary beings and objects that have defined American life for decades.“Winokur’s cast of simple, everyday things are cheerfully immune to the ravages of time and the anguish of being or becoming. Contrary to Roland Barthes’s notion that when the shutter clicks death visits the viewer and the subject like a guillotine slicing into the temporal flow, when Winokur clicks his camera the focus of his attention is preserved forever in a candy-colored glow. Without pretension, his favorite things—our favorite things—are what they are and will stay that way. Their radiant seeming imperviousness and immutability are the strangest things about them and even if they cause dour souls to reflect on how ephemeral they are, they give those less prone to melancholy an ever-welcome glimpse of eternalhappiness.” —Robert S