About the ’child and dog’ theme photos

Abstract

What kind of relation can we encode if we analyse a series of photos about children and dogs? To describe the conception of childhood regarding the mentioned topic, we asked our readers to send images about their favourite pet while interact some children. We had got 15 photos about dogs. Using Collier’s serial analysis, we can see that dogs and children can make friends, dog could be a companion, and we can’t be sure who needs to be taken care of the other. In the paper, we discuss about the roots of the type of depiction, the symbolic meaning of the dog in iconography. We focus on child-related images, such as one of the most popular one from Briton Rivière with the title Sympathy. The paper discusses about visual anthropology itself as well.