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Andrea Robbins & Max Becher: Portraits
CENTER FOR ART, DESIGN AND VISUAL CULTURE, UMBC

Paperback, 10 x 12 in. / 64 pgs / 24 color / 6 bw. | 2/1/2008 | In stock
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Andrea Robbins & Max Becher: The Transportation of Place
APERTURE

Hardcover, 11.75 x 10 in. / 156 pgs / 130 color. | 5/1/2006 | Not Available
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Andrea Robbins & Max Becher: Black Cowboys
Andrea Robbins & Max Becher: Black Cowboys
LA FáBRICA

Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 176 pgs / 92 color. | 8/23/2016 | Not available
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Andrea Robbins & Max Becher: Black CowboysAndrea Robbins & Max Becher: Black Cowboys

Published by La Fábrica.
Photgraphs by Andrea Robbins, Max Becher.

In the popular imagination, the cowboy has long been identified as white--but at the height of the cattle-ranching period in the 19th century, more than one third of cowboys were African American. Black cowboy culture is still thriving today, but is little known to the general public. This marginalization stems from both official and unofficial segregation in competitive rodeos, as well as Hollywood’s commercially driven exclusion of black cowboys from Western genre films and television.
Beginning in 2008, Andrea Robbins (born 1963) and Max Becher (born 1964) set out to photograph this history and its legacy in contemporary black cowboy culture, shooting black riding clubs, black rodeo leagues and charity events across America. In this volume, Robbins and Becher document this hidden history of the black cowboy and cowgirl and, in the process, reformulate and expand the iconography of the cowboy.

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Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 136   

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Andrea Robbins & Max Becher: PortraitsAndrea Robbins & Max Becher: Portraits

Published by Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC.
Text by Maurice Berger.

This volume is the first to examine the portrait photographs of this esteemed husband-and-wife team. The artists' portraits--like their radical landscapes and city-scenes--are powerfully evocative, boldly subverting our expectations of the discipline of portraiture: Rather than capturing the visual essence of a sitter, they reveal identity to be multifarious, transitive and culturally and historically bound. They capture their subjects in ways that transform, enhance and accentuate social and cultural meaning, doing so with the full complicity and respect of the people they photograph. Robbins and Becher spend weeks living with each community they document. They immerse themselves in the stories of its citizens and history, interviewing residents, participating in their customs, photographing them at work, play and home. Most important, they allow their subjects to represent themselves--not only as they would like to been seen, but in ways that illuminate their complex humanity.

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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 191   

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Andrea Robbins & Max Becher: The Transportation of PlaceAndrea Robbins & Max Becher: The Transportation of Place

Published by Aperture.
Essays by Maurice Berger and Lucy Lippard.

Andrea Robbins and Max Becher draw on a rich visual vocabulary gleaned as much from travel brochures, postcards and National Geographic as from the photography of Walker Evans, Edward Curtis and Stephen Shore. Their work, a somewhat surreal nonfiction, uses documentary images to examine contradictions of place and cultural identity: that is, when Germans tie on Native American headdresses and Midwesterners parade in Bavarian costumes, Robbins and Becher are there. In their own words, "The primary focus of our work is what we call the transportation of place--situations in which one limited or isolated place strongly resembles another distant one. Everywhere, not only in the new world, such situations are accumulating and accepted as genuine locales. Traditional notions of place, in which culture and geographic location neatly coincide, are being challenged by legacies of slavery, colonialism, holocaust, immigration, tourism and mass-communication. Whether the subject is Germany in Africa, Germans dressing as Native Americans, American towns dressed as Germany, New York in Las Vegas, New York in Cuba or Cuba in exile, our interest tends to be a place out of place with its various causes and consequences." Their work posits vital questions for a globalized world and for photography.

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