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“The ranches where Michael Crouser so affectionately captures these scenes tell a story of staying power, of joy in the beauty of the world, of gratitude for the working animals-the dogs and the horses-of midwifery and husbandry, of seeing the seasons through. . . . It is a pleasure to be brought into this out-of-the-way part of the world with such understated passion.” -Gretel Ehrlich, from the introduction The mountain ranches of western Colorado preserve a way of life that has nearly vanished from the American scene. Families who have lived on the same land for five or six generations raise cattle much as their ancestors did, following an annual cycle of breeding, birthing, branding, grazing, and selling livestock. Michael Crouser spent more than a decade (2006–2016) photographing family cattle ranches in Colorado, intrigued “not by the ways their lives are changing but by the way they have stayed the same.” He was, he says, “most interested in the traditional elements of these traditional lives, . . . what they call ‘cowboying.’” Intimate without being sentimental about the realities of ranch work, Mountain Ranch’s duotone images capture the raw and basic elements of a hard and basic life. In the afterword, Crouser pays verbal tribute to ranch people who are “the real deal,” whose seasonal round of work forms the subject of the acclaimed nature writer Gretel Ehrlich’s foreword. Portraits of eight men and women who eloquently describe their long lives on Colorado mountain ranches complete the volume. The ever-increasing commercial and residential development of traditional ranch land and the economic difficulties facing a new generation of ranchers threaten the future of cattle ranching in the mountains of Colorado. Mountain Ranch powerfully records the last vestiges of a tradition that exerts a nearly universal fascination and mystique-cowboying in the American West.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Gretel Ehrlich Mountain Ranch: The Photographs Heritage Afterword by Michael Crouser Acknowledgments

About the Author :
Michael Crouser is the author of two critically acclaimed photography books: Los Toros, which won first prize in the fine art book category at the 2008 International Photography Awards; and Dog Run, which was named one of the top ten photography books of the year by Photo District News, Communication Arts, and the International Photography Awards. In 2012 the Leica Gallery in New York City presented a twenty-five-year retrospective exhibition of his work. Crouser has taught at the International Center of Photography, the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, and the Mpls Photo Center in Minneapolis, and his work is in several prominent collections. Gretel Ehrlich is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Solace of Open Spaces; Islands, the Universe, Home; A Match to the Heart: One Woman’s Story of Being Struck by Lightning; In the Empire of Ice: Encounters in a Changing Landscape; and Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami.

Review :
A must-have book for your library and your brain. (Rangefinder) [Crouser] seems to have a way of making you feel for the subjects that he's photographing in a very personal way. Almost like he is invisible to his subjects and is observing and sharing an intimate view of the people and moments that he captures on film. This is a gift. (Analog Forever) Sometimes words fail, and in the case of reviewing Michael Crouser's photobook Mountain Ranch, this is a good thing…Mountain Ranch is a contemporary book with a classical feel, of an environment more visceral than verbal...Mountain Ranch shares an affinity with the classic documentary work of FSA photographers Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee, as well as the portraiture of Paul Strand and the paintings and sculpture of renowned Western artist Frederick Remington. Especially moving is the section of the book titled Heritage; formal portraits of informal people, folks who welcomed Crouser into their unpretentious lives, accompanied by a full-page text in their own words, offering context to the dignity on each well-worn face. (PhotoBook Journal)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781477312933
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1477312935
  • Publisher Date: 02 Aug 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 00
  • Weight: 1306 gr


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