Where the Buffalo Roamed. Images of the New West by Joan Myers

YELLOWSTONE, WY, 2015

IMAGES OF THE NEW WEST JOAN MYERS

with an essay by Lucy Lippard

NEAR MONUMENT VALLEY, AZ, 1979 5

LES VILDA AND HIS BURRO, WAGON MOUND, NM, 1984 7

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previous spreads: GERONIMO, NM, 1999 LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD, MT, 1986

HOT SPRINGS STATE PARK, THERMOPOLIS, WY, 2015 13

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following spread TIPI VILLAGE, MONUMENT VALLEY, UT, 2017

GUADALUPE, NM, 2013 29

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JOHN FORDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S POINT, MONUMENT VALLEY, AZ, 2015 33

AGATHLA PEAK, NAVAJO RESERVATION, NORTH OF KAYENTA, AZ, 2011 34

JACOBS LAKE, AZ, 2011 35

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Where the Buffalo Roamed. Images of the New West by Joan Myers

Published on Sep 27, 2019

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In this latest collection of photographs, taken over the last forty-five years, Joan Myers turns her lens to the contemporary American West. In so doing, she turns our conception of western landscapes and the life contained within them upside down, revealing the changes the region has undergone over the last half-century. Her perspective is at once elegiac and ironic, capturing the myth and reality of the West, its shaping and appropriation by Hollywood, popular culture, and the ever-present, but fracturing American dream. In one image, a larger-than-life statue of a cowboy stands on the same lot with a 1960s Cadillac Coupe de Ville. In another, a cardboard John Wayne-lookalike cowboy poses by a fence topped by saddles and a sign that says, “We accept all credit cards.”

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