MINDSCREEN FILM INSTITUTE

Photography Cowboy, Painter and Photographer January 10, 2017   No Comments As a child my first impression of English films was seeing Mackenna’s Gold, a big budget western film, where cowboys went looking for the mountain of gold and got corrupted and died by its lure. I was fascinated by Cowboys, read cowboy comics, tied a handkerchief around my neck galloped around my house waiting to lasso a wild horse. Since I used to live in a flat in Bombay, I could only lasso, the carpet that was rolled and kept under our divan, which would be spread out when visitors came in the evening. How did the image of the cowboy and westerns come to dominate world cinema, how did this uniquely American invention become one of the great cultural exports of America? The cowboy had become a part of the American psyche. Something there was about him—the time was when the rail roads were being built across the American west, he sat tall in the saddle, alone, unshaven, facing danger, Man vs...