Reading from the Booklet "08 wilda vestern maskulinitet"

19 pages, A5, color/black-n-white. In this booklet,

I preset the project more deeply in Swedish. And we are introduced to a number of Western Legends, such as Buffalo Bill and Kit Carsen. And I try to undress these ”Avatars” as examples of old ”genuine” or ”real” men, and show them in their propaganda-like coming into being., In a way these guys, just like Todd Hoffman and Jimmi Dorsey from GOLD RUSH ALASKA are Hyper-real. In the sense that at the same time that their bodies are existing in the world they are also active in creating stories or are featuring in stories where they play semi-fictional characters, very similar to the bodies with the same name -initially- but that as time passes becomes much larger than life and spreads like a cultural imperialist virus.

https://asjoberg.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/02_vestern_compressed.pdf