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Saturday, February 02, 2008

speaking of npr


i DID hear this cool story of a photographer traveling tens of thousand of miles to take tintype pictures of cowboys. if you click the link below, there is an audio and slide show



Day to Day, February 1, 2008 · Photographer Robb Kendrick traveled 41,000 miles searching for cowboys. His six-year quest took him across 14 states, Mexico and Canada. He emerged with a collection of images that seem trapped in time.
The men and women featured in his latest book, Still: Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-First Century, stare out at the page, solemnly, without the slightest hint of movement. These cowboys, with their long twisting mustaches, "taco" rolled-brim hats, bandanas and rawhide lassos look like relics from another era............


photo:

Robb Kendrick
Cliff "Frosty" Foster of JA Ranch in Texas, captured using tintype photography.

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