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"Cowboy with a Camera" features a selection of monumental scale, cowboy portraits by photographer Jay Dusard, most of which were made during 1980-1982. In 1981, Dusard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and embarked on an epic adventure, photographing the working cowboys and women of North America. Over a period of two years, he traveled 25,000 miles with an 8 x 10 inch view camera, and rode and photographed at 45 ranches in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The project was published in 1983 as "The North American Cowboy: A Portrait."

Larger-than-life, and filled to …