Mountain Ranch
Autor Michael Crouseren Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 aug 2017
—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
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.
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.