CURRENT EXHIBITS
ADAM JAHIEL
The Last Cowboy
On view in Halleck Bar Gallery and Barrick Gallery until
April 27, 2025
For years, Adam Jahiel has been photographing the cowboys of the Great
Basin, perhaps one of the most inhospitable regions of the already rugged
West. These people represent one of the last authentic American
subcultures, one that is disappearing at a rapid rate. Cowboying as an art
form is almost obsolete; still, the cowboys hang on, with a ferocious
tenacity. Respect there doesn’t come from the trappings of modern life.
Talent, knowledge, and skill are valued above all else. And the cowboy
tradition has its roots in the oldest of human conflicts: man against nature
and man against himself. Jahiel tries to reflect those sentiments in these
photographs. These cowboys are not “remade” into a Hollywood image.
Instead, they are “found” images, in keeping with the spirit of authenticity
that permeates the best keepers of this tradition. The Last Cowboy Project
was photographed between 1989 and 2003.
Adam Jahiel is an internationally known American photographer. He was born on April 27, 1956, in Ann Arbor, Michigan and raised in Urbana,
Illinois. Jahiel was educated At Brooks Institute of Photography (BS), majoring in commercial photography and at the University of Missouri
Columbia (BJ), majoring in photojournalism. He apprenticed with Douglas Kirkland in Los Angeles, CA, and began his freelance career in Los Angeles
doing editorial, motion picture, and corporate photography. His work reaches from the American West to such places as Kyrgyzstan, India, China,
Europe, and Africa. His atmospheric and dynamic images have been exhibited and published internationally. In 1996, he became the first living
photographer to have a one-man show at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. His photographs are in the collections of the Nevada
Art Museum in Reno, the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, as well as private and
corporate collections. He lives in Story, Wyoming.
This exhibition is on loan from the Armuth Hellwinkel Family Collection.
CURRENT EXHIBITS
ADAM JAHIEL
The Last Cowboy
On view in Halleck Bar Gallery and Barrick Gallery until
April 27, 2025
For years, Adam Jahiel has been photographing the cowboys of
the Great Basin, perhaps one of the most inhospitable regions of
the already rugged West. These people represent one of the last
authentic American subcultures, one that is disappearing at a rapid
rate. Cowboying as an art form is almost obsolete; still, the cowboys
hang on, with a ferocious tenacity. Respect there doesn’t come from
the trappings of modern life. Talent, knowledge, and skill are
valued above all else. And the cowboy tradition has its roots in the
oldest of human conflicts: man against nature and man against
himself. Jahiel tries to reflect those sentiments in these
photographs. These cowboys are not “remade” into a Hollywood
image. Instead, they are “found” images, in keeping with the spirit
of authenticity that permeates the best keepers of this tradition.
The Last Cowboy Project was photographed between 1989 and
2003.
Adam Jahiel is an internationally known American photographer.
He was born on April 27, 1956, in Ann Arbor, Michigan and raised
in Urbana, Illinois. Jahiel was educated At Brooks Institute of
Photography (BS), majoring in commercial photography and at the
University of Missouri Columbia (BJ), majoring in
photojournalism. He apprenticed with Douglas Kirkland in Los
Angeles, CA, and began his freelance career in Los Angeles doing
editorial, motion picture, and corporate photography. His work
reaches from the American West to such places as Kyrgyzstan,
India, China, Europe, and Africa. His atmospheric and dynamic
images have been exhibited and published internationally. In 1996,
he became the first living photographer to have a one-man show at
the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. His
photographs are in the collections of the Nevada Art Museum in
Reno, the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, the Art Institute of
Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, as well as private and
corporate collections. He lives in Story, Wyoming.
This exhibition is on loan from the Armuth Hellwinkel Family
Collection.
