“Everything you’ve read about The West and cowboys is in some strange fashion true. Learned how to load film on horseback, at a trot and in driving snow. I learned how to be ready, to stay out of the way and to always thank the cook.”
~ Kurt Markus
(1947 - 2022)
In a single frame, our late and great friend Kurt could summon the whole mythic sweep of the American West. Its rumbling legends, its quiet grit, its unspoken poetry. He didn’t just photograph cowboy life, he distilled it, revealing the soul of a world both heroic and vanishing. In his hands, beauty was never embellished and never forced .
