Shooting Cowboys traces the transformation of the cowboy image in Canada over a ninety-year period. An extensive selection of historical photographs from the Canadian west examines the photographer's role in creating and influencing the cultural myth of the cowboy. Brock Silversides has assembled some of the most fascinating and surprising images. The text and photographs reveal how and why the archetypical cowboy images evolved, and how these images were used for postcards, tourist literature and souvenirs, magazine ...
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Shooting Cowboys traces the transformation of the cowboy image in Canada over a ninety-year period. An extensive selection of historical photographs from the Canadian west examines the photographer's role in creating and influencing the cultural myth of the cowboy. Brock Silversides has assembled some of the most fascinating and surprising images. The text and photographs reveal how and why the archetypical cowboy images evolved, and how these images were used for postcards, tourist literature and souvenirs, magazine and book illustrations, and even for selling cattle. Included here are examples of documentary, promotional, and journalistic photography - some honest, some idealized, some fabricated, but all extremely interesting.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. pp. 184, b/w photography, a fascinating collection of the cowboy images produced in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in the heart of the ranching country before 1905, and up to the 1960s. SIGNED and dedicated by the author. Larger 8vo. Signed and dedicated by the author.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1895618959. 184 pages. "Traces the transformation of the cowboy image in Canada over a ninety-year period. An extensive selection of historical photographs from the Canadian west examines the photographer's role in creating and influencing the cultural myth of the cowboy...The text and photographs reveal how and why the archetypical cowboy images evolved, and how these images were used for postcards, tourist literature and souvenirs, magazine and book illustrations, and even for selling cattle."-from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy.; 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Shooting Cowboys-Photographing Canadian Cowboy Culture 1875-1965 Cowboys Canada Western History Pictorial Works Photography Photographers.
