“This pow-wow dancer and his wife were hired to dance on Native American Day at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. The museum staff told me about this great-looking guy. He agreed to pose for me and I photographed him right in front of the museum.”

James Bama’s modern realism approaches the larger-than-life romance of the West from a new angle. The subjects of his portraits are real people, doing real work, with the history of generations past written in their faces and the surrounding landscapes.