"I have entered into an unspoken, unwritten and generally inscrutable pact with the people I have photographed and lived among: if I promise not to tell all I know about them, they will do the same for me."
~ Kurt Markus
(1947-2022)
Kurt Markus was born in rural Montana in 1947. His photographs of the West celebrate the American cowboy with a sense of authenticity few have ever matched. Kurt knew the land and its people and because of his connection was able to truly capture their vanishing way of life and its rawness. This image is from a small edition of prints Kurt made at the end of his life. An absolutely beautiful print to behold, the Texas sky with all of its colors and the silhouette of a cowboy. It is a gem.
