Anouk Masson Krantz is a French/Dutch fine-art photographer and author living in New York City, who has made work about cowboys, rodeo and ranching in the Western United States. [1] [2] She has had a solo exhibition at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma. [3] In 2023, she received the Bronze Wrangler at the Western Heritage Awards.
Krantz was born in L'Union, a suburb of Toulouse, France. Raised in France, she moved to the United States her last year of high school in the late 1990s. Living in New York City, she completed high school at the Lycée Français de New York, but then returned to France to study at the University of Paris XI and transferred after two years back to New York City where she earned a bachelor's degree. In New York she worked for lifestyle magazines and at Cartier's corporate office, and later studied at the International Center of Photography. [4] [5]
Wild Horses of Cumberland Island (2017) is about a band of feral horses living on Cumberland Island, off Georgia. [1] The rest of Krantz's work has been about the Western United States and its cowboys, rodeo and ranching communities. [2] American Cowboys (2021) contains a "photographic study of this often overlooked, misunderstood world, from the families immersed in the culture to the hard work and labor of ranching and rodeos." [6]
Rodeo is a competitive equestrian sport that arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain and Mexico, expanding throughout the Americas and to other nations. It was originally based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, in what today is the western United States, western Canada, and northern Mexico. Today, it is a sporting event that involves horses and other livestock, designed to test the skill and speed of the cowboys and cowgirls. American-style professional rodeos generally comprise the following events: tie-down roping, team roping, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, bareback bronc riding, bull riding and barrel racing. The events are divided into two basic categories: the rough stock events and the timed events. Depending on sanctioning organization and region, other events such as breakaway roping, goat tying, and pole bending may also be a part of some rodeos. The "world's first public cowboy contest" was held on July 4, 1883, in Pecos, Texas, between cattle driver Trav Windham and roper Morg Livingston.
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History of rodeo tracks the lineage of modern Western rodeo.
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