John Langmore

BOOKS

Open Range: America's Big-Outfit Cowboy (2108) is now available at Twin Palms Publishers. 

  • {quote}Every cowboy can instantly call up with fondness that familiar sound of separated cows and calves calling to each other longingly, the smell of cattle carried on a dusty wind across sagebrush and juniper, and the feeling of a good horse underneath you as you work together to keep a herd moving.{quote}John Langmore began cowboying in 1975 at the age of twelve, after his father photographed the seminal book, The Cowboy. John spent twelve summers cowboying across the West before pursuing a professional career. In 2012, after thirty years away from his time in the saddle, John began a six-year project photographing fourteen of the nation’s largest and most famous ranches. Of all those who have photographed the cowboy, John is one of the few who came to it first as a cowboy and only later as a photographer. John’s photographs and writings reflect this deep connection to the cowboy world and offer an unrivaled chance to witness a way of life that many dream of but few experience.Open Range is now available at Twin Palms Publishers. Use the code {quote}langmore10{quote} for a $10 discount (while available).14 x 11 inches90 tritone plates144 pages
  • {quote}Where would the cowboy be if Charlie Russell hadn't picked up a brush, or Will James hadn't picked up a pen, if Erwin Smith hadn't picked up a camera, or if Will Rogers hadn't stepped out on stage, or if John Wayne hadn't stepped in front of the camera? The cowboy profession has been the most well documented lifestyle in the history of this country. It is because of that the Cowboy lives on. We have many artists and writers to thank for that. You can add John Langmore to the list.{quote}Jim Mundorf - Lonesome Lands
  • After years observing the fragmentation of East Austin’s Latino and African American communities, photographer John Langmore began to chronicle the historic neighborhood and its residents. His aim was to capture the gentrifying neighborhood’s unique nature and to make Texans aware of the people and places negatively affected by the state’s growth.Fault Lines features more than a hundred color and black-and-white photographs taken between 2006 and 2011, during which time Langmore was fully aware that the window for capturing the community was rapidly closing. Indeed today many of the neighborhood places, and even the people, have been lost to development and increasing rents and property taxes.The book also has a foreword by Michael King, a longtime political reporter for the Austin Chronicle; essays by East Austin resident Wilhelmina Delco, Austin’s first African American elected official and a ten-term member of the Texas House of Representatives, and Johnny Limón, a sixty-six-year resident of East Austin and a prominent member of the neighborhood’s Latino community; and an epilogue by Langmore.Fault Lines by Trinity University Press now available.
  • “Langmore focuses on those old ways, rather than on the conflict between the old and new. The East Austin portrayed here is a place of street fiestas, barbershop gossip, and Sunday morning church services, not brewpubs, fancy coffee shops, and limestone-and-brushed-nickel apartment complexes. It's a snapshot of a place that, Langmore writes, 'time will render unrecognizable to future generations.'”— Texas Monthly
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