Dimensions: unconfirmed: 390 x 305 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Keith Arnatt | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Keith Arnatt’s “Walking the Dog.” The gelatin silver print is strangely compelling, almost mundane. What's your read on this piece? Curator: The materials and process here are key. Arnatt's use of photography, traditionally seen as a tool for documentation, elevates the everyday act of walking a dog. Consider the labor involved: the artist, the subject, the production of the print itself. Editor: So, you're focusing on the making of the image rather than its aesthetic value? Curator: Precisely. The photograph, as a commodity, reflects a specific moment in social history and the labor practices that made it possible. We should be asking whose labor is visible and whose is not. Editor: That gives me a lot to think about, especially about the consumption of images. Thanks! Curator: Indeed. It prompts us to consider the very nature of art and its relationship to everyday life.
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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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