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Mountain Ranch

Autor Michael Crouser
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 aug 2017
“The ranches where Michael Crouser so affectionately captures these scenes tell a story of staying power, of joy in the beauty of the world, of gratitude for the working animals—the dogs and the horses—of midwifery and husbandry, of seeing the seasons through. . . . It is a pleasure to be brought into this out-of-the-way part of the world with such understated passion.”
—Gretel Ehrlich, from the introduction
The mountain ranches of western Colorado preserve a way of life that has nearly vanished from the American scene. Families who have lived on the same land for five or six generations raise cattle much as their ancestors did, following an annual cycle of breeding, birthing, branding, grazing, and selling livestock. Michael Crouser spent more than a decade (2006–2016) photographing family cattle ranches in Colorado, intrigued “not by the ways their lives are changing but by the way they have stayed the same.” He was, he says, “most interested in the traditional elements of these traditional lives, . . . what they call ‘cowboying.’”
Intimate without being sentimental about the realities of ranch work,Mountain Ranch’s duotone images capture the raw and basic elements of a hard and basic life. In the afterword, Crouser pays verbal tribute to ranch people who are “the real deal,” whose seasonal round of work forms the subject of the acclaimed nature writer Gretel Ehrlich’s foreword. Portraits of eight men and women who eloquently describe their long lives on Colorado mountain ranches complete the volume.
The ever-increasing commercial and residential development of traditional ranch land and the economic difficulties facing a new generation of ranchers threaten the future of cattle ranching in the mountains of Colorado.Mountain Ranchpowerfully records the last vestiges of a tradition that exerts a nearly universal fascination and mystique—cowboying in the American West.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781477312933
ISBN-10: 1477312935
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.27 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Michael Crouser is the author of two critically acclaimed photography books:Los Toros, which won first prize in the fine art book category at the 2008 International Photography Awards; andDog Run, which was named one of the top ten photography books of the year byPhoto District News,Communication Arts, and the International Photography Awards. In 2012 the Leica Gallery in New York City presented a twenty-five-year retrospective exhibition of his work. Crouser has taught at the International Center of Photography, the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, and the Mpls Photo Center in Minneapolis, and his work is in several prominent collections.
Gretel Ehrlich is the author of many acclaimed books, includingThe Solace of Open Spaces;Islands, the Universe,Home; A Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning;In the Empire of Ice: Encounters in a Changing Landscape; andFacing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami.

Cuprins

  • Foreword by Gretel Ehrlich
  • Mountain Ranch: The Photographs
  • Heritage
  • Afterword by Michael Crouser
  • Acknowledgments

Recenzii

A must-have book for your library and your brain.

[Crouser] seems to have a way of making you feel for the subjects that he's photographing in a very personal way. Almost like he is invisible to his subjects and is observing and sharing an intimate view of the people and moments that he captures on film. This is a gift.

Sometimes words fail, and in the case of reviewing Michael Crouser's photobookMountain Ranch, this is a good thing…Mountain Ranchis a contemporary book with a classical feel, of an environment more visceral than verbal...Mountain Ranchshares an affinity with the classic documentary work of FSA photographers Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee, as well as the portraiture of Paul Strand and the paintings and sculpture of renowned Western artist Frederick Remington. Especially moving is the section of the book titled Heritage; formal portraits of informal people, folks who welcomed Crouser into their unpretentious lives, accompanied by a full-page text in their own words, offering context to the dignity on each well-worn face.

Descriere

This powerful photo-essay records the last vestiges of a tradition that exerts a universal fascination and mystique—cowboying in the American West.