Dean West

Cowboy Study #1, American West

2024

Ed. 1/7, signed on the recto, includes black frame. Guadalupe Laiz is an international artist, photographer and explorer born and raised in Argentina. Guadalupe’s main focus for the past ten years has been an extensive body of work capturing the beauty and uniqueness of the indigenous horses of Iceland, a country that has touched her deeply and continues to visit. Her work “Horses of Iceland” has been shown in exhibitions all over the world. This photograph is from her newest series "Among the Living." For this body of work, Laiz traveled across the African continent for six years, visiting Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Batswana, Rwanda, and Uganda. Forgoing comfort often for months at a time, she returned with intimate portraits of the charismatic and fierce, yet vulnerable and endangered animals she encountered. It is impossible to look at one of her photographs and not feel her subject’s innate individuality. As part of her artistic process, she spends time with each animal up close in its natural habitat, gets to know...

Ed. of 9. As part of the artist's 2024 series American West, his latest works including "Isaac Silhouette # 1" delve deeper into an ongoing exploration of the American cowboy cultur...

Ed. of 9. As part of the artist's 2024 series American West, his latest works including "Kodiak Bear # 1" delve deeper into an ongoing exploration of the American cowboy culture of...

Ed. 2/12, signed on the recto, includes black frame. Guadalupe Laiz is an international artist, photographer and explorer born and raised in Argentina. Guadalupe’s main focus for the past ten years has been an extensive body of work capturing the beauty and uniqueness of the indigenous horses of Iceland, a country that has touched her deeply and continues to visit. Her work “Horses of Iceland” has been shown in exhibitions all over the world. This photograph is from her newest series "Among the Living." For this body of work, Laiz traveled across the African continent for six years, visiting Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Batswana, Rwanda, and Uganda. Forgoing comfort often for months at a time, she returned with intimate portraits of the charismatic and fierce, yet vulnerable and endangered animals she encountered. It is impossible to look at one of her photographs and not feel her subject’s innate individuality. As part of her artistic process, she spends time with each animal up close in its natural habitat, gets to know...

Studio portrait of the folk-rock group The Incredible String Band from December, 1968. Their third album, “The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter” had just b...

Jack Robinson photographed Phil and Don Everly, The Everly Brothers, for their album cover in 1958. That same year, their debut album on Cadence Record...

Singer, songwriter Loudon Wainwright, III is seen here from a September, 1971 session. The 24 year old Wainwright had already released two albums by the time this photograph was take...

Actor and director Dennis Hopper from December 1967. Although already known for earlier films such as “Giant”, Hopper would not become a major star until “Easy Rider” was released 18...