DOGSCAPES , a book of superb color photographs by painter ( and dog walker ) Nancy Soyer  is the work of a master portrait maker. The wild, untethered play of New York City dogs is set against Bresson-like landscapes. We see dogs tearing across beaches on Long Island Sound, lounging in the chic interior of an upstate farmhouse, or leashed on the brick and concrete platforms of Brooklyn stoops. These are no ordinary photographs; they are magnificent studies of color and rhythm, pattern and texture, where dogs of every kind, size, and personality abound. With every page in this stunning new book, another story unfolds with dogs as the narrator.

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