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Photography Regional

Shooting Cowboys

Photographing Canadian Cowboy Culture 1875-1965

by (author) Brock Silversides

Publisher
Fifth House Books
Initial publish date
Jan 1998
Category
Regional, History, Pictorials
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781895618952
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $29.95

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Description

Shooting Cowboys traces the transformation of the cowboy image in Canada over a ninety-year period. An extensive selection of historical photographs from the Canadian west examines the photographer's role in creating and influencing the cultural myth of the cowboy. Brock Silversides has assembled some of the most fascinating and surprising images.

The text and photographs reveal how and why the archetypical cowboy images evolved, and how these images were used for postcards, tourist literature and souvenirs, magazine and book illustrations, and even for selling cattle. Included here are examples of documentary, promotional, and journalistic photography- some honest, some idealized, some fabricated, but all extremely interesting.

About the author

Brock Silversides is the director of Media Commons (audiovisual library, media archives and microtext) at the University of Toronto Libraries. He hails from Saskatchewan, spent many years in Alberta and now spreads good news of the West to the eastern regions. He is the author of several books, including The Face Pullers, Shooting Cowboys, and Prairie Sentinels.

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