Pigs on Parade

by David Perry (photographer), Christine Marra (Editor)

156 page photo book (7"x10") featuring more than 200 color photos of the artist-decorated pigs that adorned Seattle's sidewalks during the summer of 2001. Also included are photos from the summer's pig events and the winning essays and pig poems from the writing contest.

156 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 2001

About the author

After studying photography at Art Center College of Design, he opened his first photo studio in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, in 1986. By 1991, he began documenting and romanticizing the emerging underground hot rod and pin-up culture in California.

His photographs have been exhibited, collected and published worldwide.

Reviews

[Philip · Rating 4 out of 5]

Small but nicely done book on the "Pig Parade" that Seattle launched in 2001 to raise money to save the historic Pike Place Market from demolition (I think). I had numerous copies of this book when I worked in East Asia for a small Seattle-based tech company, and handed them out to "preferred" clients as a promo item.

Believe this kind of thing was quite big in the early 2000's; at least it seemed like I was running into similar "parades" in a number of major cities at the time: cartoonish Dachshunds in Munich; bears in Berlin (and elsewhere); elephants in Belgium and Thailand (and elsewhere); cows in Chicago (and absolutely everywhere) - you get the idea.

The fad seems to have largely died down of late, at least based on personal observation. Believe the last ones I saw were a number of "Hokie birds" around Blacksburg, VA a couple of years ago, when my son was a student at Virginia Tech.

[Tiffany · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great pictures of Seattle's 2001 Pigs on Parade, with some interesting behind-the-scenes stuff.