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Hard Twist : Western Ranch Women Van Cleve, Barbara
Museum of New Mexico Press October 1995 0-89013-287-9 / 9780890132876 Hardcover New
Patricia Hampl, The New York Times Book ReviewThe book, a coffeetable album printed on heavy, silky stock, conveys dignity, and the black-and-white images have a grave appeal. Thirteen chapters, each devoted to a ranch woman or a family group, form the heart of the book.Each chapter, with as many as 12 or 14 photographs, provides resonant images of the women's lives and of their elemental landscape. Some of the pictures are documentary: pretty young women roping steers or branding calves, amiddle-aged platinum blonde riding a bucking bronc at a rodeo (some of thewomen, like some cowboys, make part of their living at rodeo or running dude ranches). The most intriguing images are the face-to-the-camera portraits for which Ms. Van Cleve's subjects were willing to sit. The very formality -- and implied collaboration -- of these photographs goes beyond the documentation of "a way of life" and begins to pierce the veneer of life styleto enter the privacy of character. The candor of the faces is remarkable, and bespeaks the qualities these women profess in the interviews to revere:steadfastness, self-reliance, the rigors of hard work in even the hardest weather. The outfits are impressive too -- chaps and dusters, spurs and boots stiffened with mud, the great outlandish hats of our cowboy movie heroes,worn here by women.James Kaufman, Photographer's Forum, May 1996Hard Twist is something special . . . [and was] . . . a long time in the making. Van Cleve spent the years 1986-1994 running her pickup up and down the Rocky Mountains between the ranches of the women whose lives she chose to depict, whose stories she felt
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