In her new book published by The Images Publishing Group, Anouk Krantz presents her most expansive work to date. Frontier: Cowboys of the Americas is the culmination of years of work and literally hundreds of journeys to ranches, rodeos, and the landscapes of the American continents. This collection is a magnificent tribute to a way of life and of living, to the cowboys and their communities, and, ultimately, to the heart of the Americas.
She has travelled tens of thousands of miles across the Americas, broadening her focus from the United States to North, South, and Central America. In her exquisite, large-scale photographs—all new for this book—Anouk captures the enduring yet intimate cross-boundary legacies of the North American cowboy, Central American vaquero, and South American gaucho. Her work offers a sense of the shared humanity that ties cowboy’s lives together, whether riding the rodeo circuit in the American West or managing a fifth- generation ranch in Mexico. Through this stunning body of work, Anouk elevates the spirit of the American West through the Americas as a whole. In her own words: “I am an explorer. I explore places. I explore people. I love to exchange with those who are different, those with another set of convictions. I try to learn about them and then understand them, what is important to them, what they love and what they fear, so I might learn what makes us different and makes us the same.”
Bernie Taupin, Oscar winner, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and long-time song-writing collaborator with Elton John, has contributed the foreword.
“There’s an honesty and integrity in these images that parlays all the elements of what it means to exist outside the boundaries of conformity and confinement. The rebel spirit, the rugged individualism, and the absolute unapologetic rhythm of history. This is stunning work—a true testament to the men and women who are the anvil on which America’s backbone was forged.” —Bernie Taupin
Gretel Ehrlich, best-selling and award-winning writer, poet, and essayist, has penned a fitting essay.
“So much has been made of the vanishing West, of “the last cowboy,” of the museum-like vision of men and women who ride the range. They are often enshrined in movies and television series as if ranches had ceased to exist and cowboys and cowgirls had gone home to work in town. The opposite is true. In the long stretch of the Americas, from the tip of Argentina to the extreme north of Canada, and all through the United States, working cattle and sheep ranches continue on.” —Gretel Ehrlich
Michael R. Grauer, known as ‘Cowboy Mike’, is the McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture and Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art at The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, and one of the most knowledgeable cowboy historians in the world.
“Today, thousands of rodeos of all kinds occur across the Americas. Yet the foundation of rodeo remains grounded in the work of cowboys, vaqueros, gauchos, drovers, and cowhands from the sixteenth century onward, and of the human on horseback symbolizing freedom and liberty. Cowboys of the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, still do their jobs every day, without fail and without thinking twice.” —Michael Grauer
Anouk Krantz : Frontier: Cowboys of the Americas
The Images Publishing Group
Hardback
Size 10.98 in x 13.98 in
360 Pages
Illustrations 180 b&w
ISBN 9781864709810
$85.00
