Frontier: Cowboys of the Americas

In Anouk Masson Krantz’s most expansive work to date, she travels tens of thousands of miles across the Americas, broadening her focus from the United States to both American continents. In her exquisite, large-scale photographs – all new for this book - Anouk captures sweeping landscapes and paints an intimate portrait of the enduring cross-boundary legacies of the North American cowboy, Central American vaquero, and South American gaucho. Her time spent at ranches and rodeos across The Americas has culminated in a magnificent book honouring a way of life many around the world dream of but rarely have experienced first-hand.

Frontier builds upon Anouk’s renowned body of work with her bestselling Wild Horses of Cumberland Island (2017); West: The American Cowboy (2019); American Cowboys (2021); and Ranchland (2022). Her stunning black and white, large-scale photographs capture a culture deeply rooted in principled, timeless values, sacrifice, strength, and self-reliance.

From stunning panoramas to the intimate everyday lives of working cowboys and their families, Frontier is a must-have addition to her impressive body of work.

Review

"Anouk Masson Krantz, a French writer and photographer who has chosen the American West as her subject, brings an outsider’s perspective to the subject. The author of photo books West and American Cowboys, Krantz says that she’s been fascinated by the fact that modern life has left many people wanting more—and that the cowboy, somehow, represents an alternative." - GQ

“Although most don’t want to become real working cowboys, we envy their ability to live on their own terms, within these incredible Western landscapes,” Krantz says. “The cowboy is the very living, breathing icon of freedom and independence."' - GQ