The advertisement promoting a spring auction of fine photography at the renowned New York establishment Swann’s Auction Galleries piqued my interest. Online auctions are a convenient method to tour exhibitions without leaving your desk. These digital exhibitions are not as good as an in-person experience but it will have to do for now. The collection featured work by many of photography’s most accomplished names—Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, August Sander and many more legendary photographers who captured some of modern history’s most indelible images. As I browsed through their catalog of over 400 prints, I kept an eye out for images featuring dogs, and this quirky criteria served up four images. Even though the four photographs came together randomly, I was struck how thematically the two pairs played off one another. The chance encounters of the following photograph are detailed below.
via Whisker Therapy