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Title: SignLanguage by Viggo Mortenson, Viggo Mortensen ISBN: 1-889195-49-9 Publisher: Ram Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: See with Mortensen's eyes for a bit with Signlanguage
Comment: Viggo Mortensen, although best known as an actor, has been carrying his camera constantly and taking photographs since he was a teenager. His "eye" is unique, finding tiny moments and details in the midst of the busy world and capturing them, often unusually framed or cropped, in ways that are unconventional. People, color and places are photographed in ways that draw you into the pictures, wishing you could ask Mortensen where he was, or what it was that he saw that made him choose to take the picture he took.
Painting is a more recent artistic expression for him, and he has commented that he likes to take works in progress with him on film shoots, working on them in his off-set hours, letting the different colors and places shape what he paints. Images, words and colors are combined in his canvases, often layered, reworked and scratched over.
The collection of photos and painting in SIGNLANGUAGE are primarily from 1999-2001, during which time Mortensen was working in New Zealand during the shoots for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Portraits include some of his costars, landscapes are often from locations throughout New Zealand. Some of the most interesting portraits are from Viggo's favorite ongoing subject: his son Henry. The paintings are most abstract, blending written words, color and shapes.
The images in this collection are full of wonder and color. If you can't catch one of the gallery shows of Mortensen's work, this is an excellent way to share his travels and vision.
Rating: 4
Summary: Viggo Mortenson's "Decisive Moment" Photography
Comment: There is much to admire in Viggo Mortenson's latest collection of photographs. "SignLanguage" contains pages of black and white and color photographs which resonate with visual echoes of Henri Cartier-Bresson's, Diane Arbus' and Mary Ellen Mark's work. Like Cartier-Bresson, Mortenson has embarked on a personal quest for photographs that are "decisive moments". Yet unlike Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mortenson is more engaged as a photographer in tune with his immediate surroundings. He demonstrates a genuine interest in personal intimacy and interaction with those he photographs, whether they are strangers in Manhattan and New Zealand urban streets or fellow castmates from the "Lord Of The Rings" movie trilogy. At times his images may seem as voyeuristic as some of Arbus' work, yet they are firmly rooted in the keen interest and passion he shows towards his subjects, which is certainly true of Mary Ellen Mark's finest photography.
Art historian Kevin Power offers an insightful look at Viggo Mortenson's art and the photographer at work. He draws interesting parallels between Mortenson's recent work and the fantasy literature of Tolkien and Le Guin. Yet I think another interesting parallel is to William Gibson's cyberpunk literature, especially the "cultural anthropologist" Yamazuki featured in Gibson's recent novels. In his own way, Mortenson is as insatiably curious about his surroundings as Yamazuki. Without question, Viggo Mortenson is a fine photographer as well as an excellent actor.
Rating: 5
Summary: ZOWZA!
Comment: I am completely blown away by the nonsensical willowings of the uppermost layer. It truly speaks of divine reality and sequestered formality. If, indeed that is the intent, then I applaud every inkling of the proverbial artist, not only in asmuch as one does, but also because of the intentional effort that cries out, "I am!".
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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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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: Theology and the Religions: A Dialogue by Viggo Mortensen ISBN: 0802826741 Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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