Cowboy Kate & Other Stories
London, The Bodley Head, 1966 (second impression)/ 1965.
Large quarto, [155] pages, almost entirely comprising reproductions of Haskins' photographs.
Grey papered boards lettered in black; spine slightly canted; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper lightly rubbed at the extremities.
A contemporary review in 'The Guardian' stated that '"Cowboy Kate" is something new in photography: with great technical virtuosity, extreme selectivity, a poet's insight, and an artist's eye, Sam Haskins has produced a photographic fable or allegory'. And if 'The Guardian' is not your newspaper, the 'British Journal of Photography' said 'Sam Haskins has had the talent, stature, vitality - and the discipline - to cut figure photography free from the cliches, hesitancies, and vulgarities that continually inhibit it'.
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