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Jay Dusard

Jay Dusard (Born 1937) is active/lives in Arizona, Texas, Missouri.  Jay Dusard is known for Western landscape photography, cartography, printmaking.

Born in St. Louis in 1937, Jay Dusard was raised on a southern Illinois farm.  As an architecture student at the University of Florida, a travel scholarship to study American architecture, coast to coast, was his introduction to the American West.

Dusard spent two years in the peacetime army, using his off-duty hours to "cowboy" near Fort Hood, Texas.  In 1963 his cowpunching led him to an Arizona-Sonora border ranch, where he found his best deal ever: "open country, independence, seven bucks a day, bunk and board."

In 1965, while living in Tucson, Arizona, and working in architecture and cartography, Dusard started photographing.  A year later in Flagstaff, he was working in publishing and regularly aiming his large-format cameras at the landscape.  He met photographer Frederick Sommer, who became his mentor and paved the way for him to teach photography for seven years at Prescott College.

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