she says, preferring to stick
with the time-honored but
highly demanding art of sil-
ver-gelatin printing.
Although Van Cleef is
wary of photographers who
are “more hung up on equip-
ment than they are on
images,” she admits to enjoy-
ing working with good photo-
graphic gear.
For her luminous portraits
of people or the silent, timeless
landscape of the Big Bend, she
favors a 4-by-5 Linhof view
camera, while the action shots
featured in Texas Outback called
for a faster, more portable
camera like the 2-and-one-
quarter Plubel Mikina she
used to create the dynamic
photographs of cowboys
working cattle.
The book’s sweeping views
of San Jacinto Mountain,
Sleeping Lion Mountain and
the vast, wild lands along the
Mexican border were made
with a Hasselblad panoramic
camera.
These days, Van Cleef
divides her time between her
land south of Alpine and her
ranch near Whitesboro,
Texas, where she pursues her
latest
passion,
reining.
Married since 2003 to retired
farmer Larry Range, she
enjoys her time in the state’s
biggest horse ranching com-
munity but is always glad to
get back to the land where she
belongs, West Texas. She says
the time she spends in the Big
Bend energizes her and gives
her a sense of freedom and
peace and keeps her in touch
with the West Texas way of
life she continues to portray in
her eloquent photographs of
the Big Bend and its
unique inhabitants.
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