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The American Actor John Wayne - Vintage Photo - 1975

1975

Vintage b/w photo of John Wayne, realized in the late 1960s.

Vintage b/w photo realized on the set of "In Harm' Way", in 1965.

John R. Hamilton Original photograph from the original negative of John Wayne on the set of "El Dorado" Hand singed in ink Copyright John R. Hamilton, 1967 "El Dorado", 1967, was an American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks...

Signed and titled. Vintage gelatin silver prints. Johm Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, September 1, 1883. He is most remembered for his body of photographs he took of the "Olympic of Western sport"*- the Rodeo. During his lifetime he crossed America, working rodeos as an announcer, a producer, promoter and sometimes a rider. He invented the chute that the animals come out of and he developed new ways of photographing action during an event. Dramatic shots were taken from the ground, propping his camera on the toe of his right boot right next to a bucking bronco. Some historians believe that John Stryker was directly responsible for the growth and sophistication of the sport. His negatives are in the collection of the University of Texas at Permian Basin, Odessa. His photographs have been exhibited during his lifetime at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, and the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. His photographs have been published widely including Life, Look, The Cattleman, The Western Horseman, and The Quarter Horse Journal. In 1977, The Rodeo of John Addison Stryker...