<p>The photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber is associated with a wide array of imagery: humanist portraits of artists, actors, and athletes; fashion spreads charged with emotion, irreverence, and nostalgia; lyrical tributes to eroticism and an arcadian vision of the American landscape. All these things¿and golden retrievers, too. Since the very beginning, Weber has been accompanied on his travels by a pack of these benevolent canines, who have populated his photographs for fashion campaigns, prominent magazines, and the pages of his personal scrapbooks in equal measure.</p><p></p><p>The Golden Retriever Photographic Society is Weber¿s first career-spanning collection of these photographs, one he describes as his most personal. In the introduction to the monograph, Weber remarks, ¿People sometimes say to me, ¿In my next life, I want to come back as one of your dogs.¿¿ Paging through this volume, we understand the sentiment. For five decades, these golden retrievers have been foils for