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John Dyer: In the Dust of the Rodeo

In 1983, John Dyer loaded his wife, his nine-month-old son, and a Hasselblad 500C into a car and hit the road — from Texas to Montana. These images of arenas and cowboys, shot twelve frames at a time, stand today as an irreplaceable record of a vanishing America.

Some childhood stories leave marks that never fade. John Dyer's father grew up in Augusta, Montana — a town of five hundred hardy souls in cattle country in the western part of the state. In the 1930s, the rodeo arrived there and quickly became the h...

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Jonas Cuénin

Jonas Cuénin works as managing director at Blind and has previously been working as editor-in-chief at the magazines L’Oeil de la Photographie and Camera.

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