Garry Winogrand: The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo

The artist captures the cacophony and chaos of fervent performers, exuberant onlookers, docile sheep, and unbroken steeds. The skewed compositions and the use of flash in the indoor spaces heightens the intensity and drama.

Black-and-white photograph of men in cowboy hats with their back to the viewer conversing with a woman
Black-and-white photograph of a horse held by two men on a rope rearing in an arena
Black-and-white photograph of a man leading a bridled bull offering a hat to a child
Black-and-white photograph of a cowboy sitting astride a bucking bull
Black-and-white photograph of a man dressed as a clown being thrown from the back of a bucking bull
Black-and-white frontal view of a cowboy on a bucking horse
Black-and-white photograph of a bull chasing a man dressed as a clown
Black-and-white photograph of a cowboy with one arm raised sitting astride a bucking horse
Black-and-white photograph of a small boy kneeling in a pig pen
Black-and-white photograph of a cowboy on a bucking horse next to a crowd of people in cowboy hats climbing out of the arena
Black-and-white photograph of people rounding up pigs in a pig pen before a crowd in the bleachers
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