In her latest collection of photographs, Santa Fe-based photographer Joan Myers (born 1944) turns her lens to the American West, capturing both the myth and the reality, its shaping and appropriation by Hollywood and the ever-present but fracturing American dream.
A larger-than-life statue of a cowboy stands on the same lot with a 1960s Cadillac Coupe de Ville.
A man in Wrangler jeans and a cowboy hat sits for his portrait on a dais with a Hopi maiden and cows and deer made out of barbed w.
Damiani Ltd Joan myers: where the buffalo roamed: images of the new west, hardcover/joan myers
