Susannah Benjamin
#Photographe
Photographe américaine
- Exposition
Exhibition : «Kurt Markus, The fashion years» in Santa Fe
When the fashion editors discovered the West, they went looking for a genuine Western cowboy photographer, someone who knew the heart and practice of small-town cowboy life, "cowboy culture," on vast cattle ranches--someone who was a true cowboy chronicler and well connected. Kurt Markus was their man. For 35 years he had photographed the buckaroos of Oregon, Nevada, Idaho and California; the cowpunchers of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona; and the cowboys of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Canada. Irrespective of the different captions these wranglers wore there was one common thread, according to Kurt: "They [these chaps] ride in the company of like-minded souls."
Kurt is one of the most distinguished portrait and fashion photographers in the last quarter century. The N...
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When the fashion editors discovered the West, they went looking for a genuine Western cowboy photographer, someone who knew the heart and practice of small-town cowboy life, "cowboy culture," on vast cattle ranches--someone who was a true cowboy chronicler and well connected. Kurt Markus was their man. For 35 years he had photographed the buckaroos of Oregon, Nevada, Idaho and California; the cowpunchers of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona; and the cowboys of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Canada. Irrespective of the different captions these wranglers wore there was one common thread, according to Kurt: "They [these chaps] ride in the company of like-minded souls."
Kurt is one of the most distinguished portrait and fashion photographers in the last quarter century. The N...