OLTRE IL MURO: ARTE e FOTOGRAFIA: LA CACCIA ALLA VOLPE

venerdì 20 luglio 2012

LA CACCIA ALLA VOLPE

STORIA DI UN’ANTICA CRUDELTÀ

Lars Wall barbershop, Milton, North Dakota. 1917. The interior of a barbershop with two chairs. Large mirrors, a sink, and a glass cabinet are visible. The words "Kochs Toilet Requisites" are on the door. On the wall hang three pictures of horses, and there are two advertisements for "The Leader Anna Held Cigar 5c." There is also a stuffed fox and ceiling light. "April 1917, Bill Bell, Barber" -- Back of hand-colored print. (Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection, North Dakota State University Institute for Regional Studies / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Fox chained to automobile. Moorehead, Minnesota: photo by John Vachon, October 1940 (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Collection / Library of Congress)

D. Meek, south of Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska. Note: The furs on the wagon wheel are fox. The pelt held by the man with the beard is badger. Beside him, a pile of traps. The wagon cover over a hole in the ground is a common first dwelling: photo by Solomon Devore Butcher, 1890 (Nebraska State Historical / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Roy Merriott, farmer, holding foxes which he has killed on his farm, near Estherville, Iowa: photo by Russell Lee, December 1936 (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Collection / Library of Congress)

Perley Mosley with three pelts from foxes he trapped at Eden Mills, Vermont: photo by Arthur Rothstein, December 1941 (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Collection / Library of Congress)

Mrs. Lillian Robins Grey, sitting in a hallway in Chicago, Illinois. She is wearing a fox stole around her neck: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 19 February ca. 1917 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Miss Margaret Phelan, sitting in front of a backdrop in a room in Chicago, Illinois. She is wearing a fox stole: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 1917 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Mrs. Gladys Graham Fox, wearing a fox fur stole, sitting on the edge of a desk with her hands in her lap and looking away from the camera in a room in Chicago, Illinois: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 1923 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Mrs. David Forgan, standing in a booth at the Allied Bazaar in Chicago, Illinois. A fox pelt displayed on a stand is next to her and a sign on the wall behind her reads selected silver fox skins $1.00 dollar a share: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 13 January ca. 1917 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Four foxes in a cage for fox hunting at Midlothian Country, West 147th and South LaVergne Streets, Midlothian, Illinois: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 1904 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Dogs following hunter in kennel at Midlothian Country Club, West 147th and South LaVergne Streets, Midlothian, Illinois: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 1904 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Fox hunting, hunter on horseback and hunting dogs in a kennel at Midlothian Country Club, West 147th and South LaVergne Streets, Midlothian, Illinois: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 1904 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Fox hunting, Midlothian Country Club, West 147th and South LaVergne Streets in Midlothian, Illinois, dogs eating in a field, hunter on horseback nearby: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 1904 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Hounds, several standing on porch of building, one on ground, Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Illinois: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 1905 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

W. Vernon Booth and hounds, hounds on porch, riders on horses stand on grass, Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Illinois: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 1905 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Fox hunt, five horseback riders and a pack of hunting dogs on the grounds of the Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Illinois: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 1913 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Horsemen on horseback and a pack of hunting dogs crossing a lawn during a fox hunt at the Onwentsia Country Club, Lake Forest, Illinois: photographer unknown, for Chicago Daily News, 26 September 1913 (Chicago Daily News Collection, Chicago History Museum / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Fox hunt, Washington D.C. area. Fox hunting V: photo by Theodor Horydczak (1890-1971), n.d., ca. 1920-ca. 1950 (Theodor Horydczak Collection / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Fox ranching is about the main commercial operation on the various inhabited Aleutian Islands. The islands form a vast wildlife refuge but fox ranching is permitted under license by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior. There are very few wild animals on these islands although there were once a number of wild foxes. The foxes which form the basis of the Aleutian industry were generally imported: photo by V. B. Scheffer, August 1938 (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service / Department of the Interior/ Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

Red Fox Pelts at Nevada Trappers' Association Fur Sale: photo by William H. Smock, from Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)