Tails from the Booth

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Lynn Knight Terry. Tails from the Booth

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This book is dedicated, in gratitude and affection, to the memory of my dog DeeDee. It is because of you, sweet girl, that I fell in love with dog-kind and so began the true path to my career. And to my dear husband and best friend, Luke, and our cute pup of a daughter, Adelaide, without whom this book would have been completed so very much sooner.

One would surmise, by viewing my other photography or visiting my home, that I have an interest in history and pretty much anything dating from before 1950: I live in a 104-year-old home, I collect antiques, I enjoy shooting pinup-style photography and have an entire wardrobe and props from that era. Old photographs of all my earliest ancestors are framed on my walls, among a collection of antique photos of dogs and humans together, peppered with a collection of anthropomorphic animal art.

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Everyone I shared it with loved this shot, so, flattered by all the interest people had expressed, I began experimenting with different backdrops and different dogs. I first built something out of PVC so that I could adjust the height based on the size of the dogs as well as transport it easily. I played around with this for a few years and then put the project aside. But in November of 2013, my beloved dog, DeeDee, passed away at age fifteen. I never took pictures of myself with her. I’ve since regretted it, so the following February, I organized an event to photograph people with their four-legged loves in the booth for Valentine’s Day. Knowing how receptive people were to the original photo booth shots, I figured this would be a fun campaign.

Sure enough, these shots were a huge success too, and so began the process for the book.

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