Rover

Grant first thought of doing a book of dog portraits when he photographed a pair of French bulldogs for an ad campaign. The hundreds of dog photos that followed may not have gone as planned, but the premise of this book is quite admirable. Nearly all the dogs portrayed here are rescues whose owners have made substantial donations to dog shelters around the nation. Thus far, donors have contributed nearly $2 million. For every copy sold, the publisher makes an additional contribution to an organization for neglected and abused dogs. The portraits themselves are quite impressive—sharply detailed color images photographed against a white background in a professional studio. They are best described as revealing character studies of the dogs, each of which is looking expressively into the camera. With a brief introduction by the author and helpful suggestions for how to take part in rescue efforts at the end, this is primarily a portfolio of a variety of purebreds and mixed-breeds dogs who all have one thing in common: they were all saved by good-hearted people.