Roughstock: The Toughest Events in Rodeo - Hardcover

Doubleday Book Club

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* Belgium annual, SNOECKS, Literatuur, Kunst, Reportages, Film/Foto, Mode, Design

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"Roughstock: The Toughest Events in Rodeo joins the growing body of work by John Annerino that portrays the American western culture with photographic passion and a historical perspective. This book portrays "the cowboy" as a diverse and multiethnic persona not the traditional "Marboro Man" and conveys through his thoughtful and well researched essay that the traditional image was never in fact the case. Annerino's dramatic photographs bring to life the men and women who risk their lives. The images are full of action and the sense of danger is coupled with an intimacy created by his use of light and in his portraits of the cowboys. There is a rhythm and dance to the photos that creates a timelessness to the action. This book is wonderfully edited and layed out and may be the author's finest work to date."
-- People Magazine, Donnamarie Barnes, Photo editor

Few traditions are as classically American as the cowboy. And the most thrilling and dangerous real-life setting for a modern cowboy is one of America's fastest growing spectator sports -- and its most dangerous -- rodeo. Within rodeo, the toughest events are known as "Roughstock": bareback, bronco busting, and bull riding. Now comes Roughstock: the first full-color photography book dedicated solely to culture of roughstock rodeo -- packed with one hundred ten gorgeous photographs never before seen. Included is an essay chronicling the history of the American cowboy, from the days of the conquistadors to the Internet. From California to Virginia, Roughstock documents traditional as well as Native American, African-American, and all-women roughstock rodeos with a gallery of unforgettable characters and the animals they try to tame -- with gritty, action-packed, behind-the-chutes photographs, up close, mean and personal.

Photojournalist John Annerino has been hooked by bulls and stomped by broncos in his quest to capture roughstock rodeo on film. His credits include Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Scientific American, and many publications worldwide. He is the author of eight books.