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Black cowboys

Title
Black cowboys / Andrea Robbins & Max Becher.
Author
Robbins, Andrea, 1963-
Publication
Madrid : La Fábrica : Fundación ICO ; Siegen : Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, [2016]
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Additional Authors
  • Becher, Max, 1964-
  • Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, host institution.
  • Museo Colecciones I.C.O., host institution.
  • Fundación ICO, host institution.
Description
155 pages : color illustrations; 25 x 30 cm
Summary
"In the popular imagination, the cowboy has long been identified as white--but at the height of the cattle-ranching period in the 19th century, more than one third of cowboys were African American. Black cowboy culture is still thriving today, but is little known to the general public. This marginalization stems from both official and unofficial segregation in competitive rodeos, as well as Hollywood's commercially driven exclusion of black cowboys from Western genre films and television. Beginning in 2008, Andrea Robbins (born 1963) and Max Becher (born 1964) set out to photograph this history and its legacy in contemporary black cowboy culture, shooting black riding clubs, black rodeo leagues and charity events across America. In this volume, Robbins and Becher document this hidden history of the black cowboy and cowgirl and, in the process, reformulate and expand the iconography of the cowboy."--Amazon.ca.
Subject
  • Robbins, Andrea, 1963- > Exhibitions
  • Becher, Max, 1964- > Exhibitions
  • Becher, Max, 1964-
  • Robbins, Andrea, 1963-
  • Documentary photography > Exhibitions
  • African American cowboys > Portraits > Exhibitions
  • African Americans > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
  • Cowboys > Texas > Richmond > Interviews
  • Cowboys in art > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
  • African American cowboys
  • Cowboys
  • Cowboys in art
  • Documentary photography
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Texas > Richmond
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Catalog of an itinerant exhibition held at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany, March 18- May 16, 2016, and at the Museo ICO, Madrid, Spain, June 1-Sept. 11, 2016.
  • Photographs.
  • Includes interviews.
  • A. Robbins (1963- ), American photographer, and M. Becher (1964- ), German photographer.
  • Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Text in English and Spanish.
Call Number
Sc+ F 18-244
ISBN
  • 9788416248544
  • 8416248540
OCLC
966597995
Author
Robbins, Andrea, 1963- photographer.
Title
Black cowboys / Andrea Robbins & Max Becher.
Publisher
Madrid : La Fábrica : Fundación ICO ; Siegen : Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, [2016]
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Text in English and Spanish.
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Added Author
Becher, Max, 1964- photographer.
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, host institution.
Museo Colecciones I.C.O., host institution.
Fundación ICO, host institution.
Research Call Number
Sc+ F 18-244
ReCAP 17-68172
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