After Barbed Wire: Cowboys of Our Time

After Barbed Wire: Cowboys of Our TimeKurt Markus' photographs and writings have appeared frequently in publications which detail and observe the American Cowboy's place in our world today. Published here for the first time are many of his finest images culled from his decade long collaboration with the cowboy. His pictures evoke a sense of the western landscape and a man's place on it which is splendid and melancholy. The American Cowboy has never been seen so clearly poised on the

50 four-color plates

white sheets and old fishing nets were arranged with models

raw off the football field

androgynous figures of indeterminate age float on top of and through each other in a layered composition separated by planes of Plexiglas and semi-opaque vellum paper

clothbound hardcover with dust jacket

And he calls attention to what you carry with you when you decide to disappear

spectators and competitors are all a part of these pictures and dialogues

Scenes which would normally appear threatening

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