Now Available: Thirty Times a Minute, published by Radius Books, 2020

Colleen Plumb: Thirty Times a Minute

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”Plumb is less interested in editorializing than disrupting people’s context, springing a feeling moment upon them.”

— Julia Cooke, Virginia Quarterly Review

Photography by Colleen Plumb
Texts by Marc Bekoff, Julia Cooke, Catherine Doyle, Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., Linda Hogan, Les O’Brien, Joyce Poole & Peter Granli, Steven M. Wise, Mandy-Suzanne Wong

Hardcover / 9.25 x 13.5 inches
58 images / 220 pages
ISBN: 9781942185451

Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing. 

COLLEEN PLUMB traveled to over seventy zoos in the US and Europe, and created video featuring dozens of captive elephants in their small enclosures. She has photographed her guerrilla public projections of the video in over 100 locations worldwide. 

Thirty Times a Minute includes a selection of these photos, along with nine contributions from animal rights activists and scientists, in order to examine the way animals in captivity function as colonialist symbols of human domination over nature.

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