[A collection of test street prints for the June, 1987 Miles City Ranch Rodeo held at the Eastern Montana Fairgrounds featuring action shots of bull riders, calf roping, bronc riding, cowboys, and portrait of Native American woman].

[Sebastapol & Santa Rosa, CA: Donna Blair Abbott Rodriguez], Feb., 1988. Fourteen silver gelatin photographs, 11 x 14 in., w/ each of the images having a healthy margin, rendering many of them approx. 8 x 10.5 in., printed on Seagull Oriental G-3 Photographic paper stock (some curling to fore-edges), preserved in original photographic paper box, manuscript annotations & title on lid in Rodriguez’ hand. This grouping of exceptional photographs of events and participants documents the Miles City Ranch Rodeo in Eastern Montana, with an energy and intimacy often seen in her tattoo and travel photographs. The first shows a bull rider having lost his hat, and bull literally almost stampeding over rodeo clown; followed by two vivid bronc riding photos, one of which shows the Culbertson ambulance waiting just outside of the gate. Three different rodeo riders are shown competing in the calf roping events, while others show riders taping up for events, or seated and waiting to be called outside the nearby stalls. The portrait of a young Native American woman is quite striking. Donna Rodriguez (b. 1944) noted Sebastapol, and Santa Rosa, CA artist photographer and onetime spouse of Bert Rodriguez, was perhaps best known for her California tattoo photographs shot in and around the Santa Rosa Tattoo Studio in the 1980s & 1990s, but also documented cultures in Mexico and Southeast Asia, before later retiring to Portland, OR. See: Carolyn Lund, New Location Sought for Photo Exhibit, Press Democrat (1992); Charlie Swanson, Fresh Ink: On the Verge of Cancellation, New Management Revamps Santa Rosa’s Tattoos & Blues, Boehmian (2018); Danny Mueller, Fort Bragg’s Triangle Tattoo & Museum Tells the History of Tattoos, Press Democrat (2019); Interview with J.S. Lewis, Tucson Tattoo Expo & Arizona Tattoo Invitational, HouseInk (2018).