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Title: Horse Is Good by Viggo Mortensen ISBN: 0-9747078-3-X Publisher: Perceval Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: "Horse" is good
Comment: Artist Viggo Mortensen has rapidly gained a reputation for befriending his equine costars in movies like "Hildago" and "Lord of the Rings," even buying some of them once the movies were done. Now he takes his love of horses one step further. In "The Horse is Good," Mortensen presents his unique vision of horses from across the world, from a perspective that isn't entirely human.
Mortensen presents a sort of ethereal photographic exercise, showing all sorts of horse photographs. Some are sharp black-and-white shots, and some are colorful. Some are blurred, and some take awhile to figure out where the horse is in the photo. And some are distant and obscured by weather conditions, like a the final shot in a depressing movie finale.
Mortensen took his photographs all across the world, presenting us with photos from Morocco, South Dakota, Montana, New Zealand, Denmark, Brazil, Iceland, California, and Argentina. Surprisingly, he keeps the perspective fresh -- you don't get sick of page after page of horses. You're more likely to be struck by the quiet, earthy beauty captured in each image, all different.
And Mortensen's photography itself is pretty varied -- there's color and stark black-and-white photos, with some bright and blurry and some sharply focused. The shots themselves vary in a technical sense. Mortensen took some photographs from the rider's point of view (never has the back of a horse's ears looked so interesting), and others from the horse's point of view, down below where photographs are usually shot. That unusual technique makes the photos seem less like a simple photo, and more like a split second through a horse or lonely rider's own eyes.
Viggo Mortensen's love of horses shines through brightly in "The Horse is Good," a simple, beautiful study of one of mankind's oldest companions. Quiet and very lovely.
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Title: Coincidence of Memory by Viggo Mortensen ISBN: 0972143602 Publisher: Perceval Press Pub. Date: 09 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: SignLanguage by Viggo Mortenson, Viggo Mortensen ISBN: 1889195499 Publisher: Ram Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Hole in the Sun by Viggo Mortensen ISBN: 0972143610 Publisher: Perceval Press Pub. Date: 09 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title:A Walk on the Moon ASIN: B00000K31T Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $12.29 |
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Title: Viggo Mortenson - Recent Forgeries by Viggo Mortenson, Viggo Mortensen ISBN: 1889195324 Publisher: Ram Pubns & Dist Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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