ABOUT THIS BOOK: For years now—ever since the distinguished photography journal, Aperture, featured one of his startling landscapes on its cover—tine arts photographers have known about Jay Dusard. A student and colleague of Frederick Sommer and Ansel Adams, he has established himself as not only a consummate creator of images, but as one of the greatest of black-and-white printmakers. But for even longer Dusard has been at home among very different company: working cow-punchers of the American Southwest, with whom he has ridden and labored on many occasions. When he received his army discharge after being stationed in Texas in the early '60s, Dusard, who grew up on an Illinois farm, was so enamored with the West that he momentarily forgot his degree in architecture, hiring out as a $7-a-day cowhand. The old John Slaughter Ranch on the Arizona-Sonora border was his place to unwind before returning to his drawing board and eventually finding his way into a darkroom. Nearly two decades later, armed with a saddle, bedroll, an 8 x 10 view camera and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Jay Dusard began a journey from his home in Prescott, Arizona which ultimately covered 25,000 dusty miles and took him to some forty-five ranches in two Canadian provinces, nine U.S. and two Mexican states. Again he rode alongside the working men and women of the West, moving, cutting and roping cattle. Afterwards, he would set up his big wooden tripod and laboriously compose and fine-focus the image on his ground glass. It is an old, ungainly process compared to the slick speed of a 35mm

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