Art
Cowboy Up! Photograph and book signed by Arthur Frank
- Item Number
- 147
- Opening Bid
- 550 USD
Item Description
Framed Silver Gelatin Photograph Print and Autographed Book
After reading a front-page article in The New York Times about the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, Arthur Frank took a week off from work to travel around Wyoming, photographing whatever rodeos he could find. Once there, he found the culture of the American cowboy very much alive and kicking. Although their practical skills remain essential to modern ranching, it is the rodeo where their trade is praised, perpetuating the myth and mystique of America’s rough and rugged icon—the cowboy.
Cowboy Up, Frank’s first monograph, presents photographs taken at more than fifty rodeos—including high school, college, and women’s competitions in addition to professional rodeos—in Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nevada, Arizona, Calgary, Alberta, even Binghamton, New York. As a former football and rugby player from New York City, Frank approached the roundup with an athlete’s understanding, while his profession provided distance from the clichés associated with the sport.
With photographs that capture the vigorous physicality of one of the world’s most erratic and dangerous sports, Cowboy Up delves deeply into the modern cowboy’s life, capturing riders during the jittery wait before the roundup, and back at the ranch, engaging in work that tamed the Wild West. Frank’s outsider perspective and insider access combine to provide a humanistic yet dynamic and inspiring view into a lifestyle that has become an American legend. Arthur Frank’s photographs have been published in The New York Times, Time Out New York, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, and American Cowboy. He has had solo exhibitions at SOHO Photo Gallery and Columbia University, New York and has participated in numerous group shows including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Frank’s rodeo photographs have won awards at New York’s Salmagundi Club and the Maine Photographic Workshops. He lives in New York City.
Item Special Note
Image is 16 x 20, framed 18 x 24
Book is hardcover, 11.25 x 7.5, with 104 duotone photographs
Donated By:
Arthur Frank
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