HORSES. JANE EVELYN ATWOOD

Horses reveals a little-known side of Jane Evelyn Atwood’s work: her long-term series on horses or rather her relationship with horses. A major photographic subject, the horse is here the vector of many themes dear to the American photographer: her fascination for this animal developed since childhood, her admiration for its strong physical presence but also its share of humanity. Immersed in the great outdoors, from Brittany to Mongolia via Vermont, the reader discovers throughout the pages all the majesty of this animal, wild or domesticated, which has accompanied Man since the dawn of time.

Atwood’s images expose the very essence of movement, the nobility of postures and the subtlety of the play of light and shadow that occurs on the coats of the animals. The horse is transformed into a true living sculpture, where the shape of its body sometimes evokes abstract, almost dreamlike landscapes.

The visual corpus is completed by a text by Jane Evelyn Atwood which enlightens us on her intentions and her intimate relationship with horses.