Dieter Blum

The wide horizon of the prairie where the sun sets, galloping horses and casual lassos swinging cowboys. It is these images that give America's myth a unique visual form, making it as visible as it is perceptible. Like hardly any other contemporary photographer, Dieter Blum (born 1936 in Esslingen, Germany) has dealt with this topic, updated and questioned it. The 60 photographs of the series Cowboys, which were taken for Marlboro in 1992, bear witness to this and are for the first time fully compiled in this exhibition catalogue. The classic topos of the "Lonesome Cowboy" have been humorously broken and replaced by a "worker", who is working in a team on everyday activities - standing at the bar, reading newspapers, doing laundry, skiing, taking a bath. A ravishing picture story, fiction and reality, myth.