About The Book |
The idea of book and sequencing and editing led me to filmmaking. While professionally immersed in film, I have often found myself returning to still photography, drawing inspiration from the motion studies of Muybridge, and often printing the images I captured in the order that they were taken. |
This led me back to bookmaking. The book is not concerned with what is placed on the page, but how to speak between the pictures. A book is more than the sum of its parts. A book you hold in your hand. |
There is something in the idea of the horse that evokes what I feel we as humans have lost: our connection to spirit, sense of wildness, and our spontaneity. These motion studies represent the real strength, freedom and individual spirit that exists in these horses, and in us, despite the constraints imposed by frame, and by the confines of our daily lives. |
I use a 4 X 5 view camera or a Hasselblad and shoot on film, then scanning the film to tone. |
About The Edition |
This cloth-bound edition, each individually signed and numbered, contains 28 color plates and limited to an edition of 100. |
Available exclusively from Susan Friedman, Studio on the Mountain. |
