Alexandra Horowitz’s Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
draws on that of an early-20th-century German biologist, Jakob von Uexküll, who proposed that “anyone who wants to understand the life of an animal must begin by considering what he called their umvelt . . . : their subjective or ‘self-world.’ ” Hard as we may try, a dog’s-eye view is not immediately accessible to us, however, for we reside within our own umwelt, our own self-world bubble, which clouds our vision. (more)
Seattle photographer Ford Gilbreath cracked the canine umwelt in 2000 with a series shot from its point of view.
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