Dimensions: unconfirmed: 390 x 305 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Keith Arnatt | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here's Keith Arnatt's black and white photograph, "Walking the Dog." It's so...ordinary, and yet, the man's expression makes me wonder what's going on beneath the surface. What do you make of it? Curator: It's a loaded kind of ordinary, isn't it? Arnatt was fascinated by the everyday, the 'nothing much' of life. I see a portrait of modern alienation, that dog, that street, they become players in this existential drama. Do you feel that tension? Editor: I do, now that you mention it. There's a real sense of disconnect. Thanks for pointing that out! Curator: My pleasure. It's a good reminder to find the extraordinary within the ordinary.
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Walking the Dog is a large series of black and white photographs of individuals standing outside with their dogs. While the locations depicted in the photographs vary from street pavements and country lanes to parks and gardens, all the images in this series share consistent formal characteristics: in each case the single owner stands full-length in the centre of the image facing the camera with the dog at their feet, and no other human or animal can be seen within the tightly framed square shot.
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