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(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo. VIGGO MORTENSEN: SKOVBO. Santa Monica, CA & Reykjavik, ICELAND: Perceval Press & The Reykjavik Museum of Photography, 2008. First Edition. 4to. Boards with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 118pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Michele Perez. "This book functions as a partial companion to the photography exhibit entitled "Skovbo" (which roughly translates from Danish as "home in the forest") by Viggo Mortensen at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography (Ljosmyndasafn Reykjavikur), opening on 31st May, 2008 and running until 31st August, 2008. In this new collection of images and poems are trees and the memory of trees, ghosts, words, nights, days, lives, deaths, and safe haven for them all in the place where "...the twigs become branches, / And the mist becomes make-believe... (Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam)". Dedicated to Howard Zinn and Dennis Kucinich, this substantial publication from actor/artist/musician/poet/activist Viggo Mortensen combines his recent images of foliage and greenery with the occasional prose-poem to create one of the loveliest surveys of his photography to date. A pristine copy of the now unavailable first hardbound printing still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9763009-7-4 Inventory Number: 015170

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(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo. VIGGO MORTENSEN: MO TE UPOKO-O-TE-IKA/FOR WELLINGTON. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Tall 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.96pp, profusely illustrated in color. "Mo Te Upoko-o-te-ika/For Wellington is a book to accompany the joint exhibitions currently on at Massey University and the Wellington City Gallery, in New Zealand. Photographer Viggo Mortensen says "I've seen and learned a great deal so far in that beautiful country, and am glad to have been able to return many of the images made during my time there and share them with the people of Aotearoa". A pristine copy of the first edition, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-8-8

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VIGGO MORTENSEN: MO TE UPOKO-O-TE-IKA/FOR WELLINGTON. Santa Monica, CA. 2003 (2006).: Second Printing. Tall 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color. "Mo Te Upoko-o-te-ika/For Wellington is a book to accompany the joint exhibitions currently on at Massey University and the Wellington City Gallery, in New Zealand. Photographer Viggo Mortensen says "I've seen and learned a great deal so far in that beautiful country, and am glad to have been able to return many of the images made during my time there and share them with the people of Aotearoa". A pristine copy of the second printing still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9721436-8-8

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VIGGO MORTENSEN: COINCIDENCE OF MEMORY  (7th Printing)
(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo. Santa Monica, CA: 2002 (2004). Seventh Printing. Square 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 66pp, 57 illustrations in color and b&w. While primarily known for his role as "Aragorn" in Peter Jackson's cinematic version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Mr. Mortensen is an artist whose boundless creative output embraces a myriad of media. This handsome book combines photographs, paintings, and poems that span his artistic output from 1978 to 2002. A pristine copy of the seventh printing, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.  

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VIGGO MORTENSEN: MIYELO (1st Edition)
(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo, Mike Davis, James Mooney & Sonny Richards. Santa Monica, CA: 2003. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Miyelo is comprised of a series of large-scale, panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance, taken from a single roll of film in March of 2003. The images record a re-creation of the dance that was originally performed by members of Chief Big Foot's band on December 29, 1890 near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. The intent was to capture the event as a delirious remembrance, an ephemeral dream. Accompanying these and other related images is extensive literary and historical documentation of the period during which the Ghost Dance originated, leading up to and beyond the tragic massacre at Wounded Knee. With selected first-hand accounts of the event, as well as modern-day commentary and a comprehensive bibliography, Miyelo gives the reader an overview that otherwise might only be gained from examining a myriad of sources". This is the latest publication from actor/artist/musician/poet/all-around renaissance guy Viggo Mortensen. A pristine copy of the first edition, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.

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VIGGO MORTENSEN: SIGNLANGUAGE (1st Edition)         

(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo & Kevin Power. VIGGO MORTENSEN: SIGNLANGUAGE. Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 2002. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. 84pp, 95 illustrations in color and b&w. This is the comprehensive catalogue published in conjunction with Viggo Mortensen's February 2002 Santa Monica gallery exhibition "Signlanguage". This lovely document features the actor/artist's photography and paintings created primarily during his stay in New Zealand from 1999 to 2001 while filming his role as "Aragorn" in Peter Jackson's cinematic version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A pristine copy of the softbound first printing of Viggo's Mortensen's second book. 1-889195-49-9

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(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo & Kevin Power. VIGGO MORTENSEN: SIGNLANGUAGE. Santa Monica, CA. 2002 (2004).: Seventh Printing. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New. 84pp, 95 illustrations in color and b&w. This is the comprehensive catalogue published in conjunction with Viggo Mortensen's February 2002 Santa Monica gallery exhibition "Signlanguage". This lovely document features the actor/artist's photography and paintings created primarily during his stay in New Zealand from 1999 to 2001 while filming his role as "Aragorn" in Peter Jackson's cinematic version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. A pristine copy of the sixth printing still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-889195-49-9

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VIGGO MORTENSEN: HOLE IN THE SUN   (2nd Printing)
(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo. Santa Monica, CA: 2002 (2003).: Second Printing. Square 8vo. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.96pp, 52 illustrations in color and b&w. While primarily known for his role as "Aragorn" in Peter Jackson's cinematic version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Mr. Mortensen is an artist whose boundless creative output embraces a myriad of media. This handsome book reproduces a series of photographs that document and abstract the urban backyard swimming pool as monument. The images vary from late afternoon reflections on still water, to the distressed architectural elements found inside an empty and abandoned pool. A pristine copy of the second printing, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.

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VIGGO MORTENSEN: RECENT FORGERIES (7th Printing)                  

(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo. Introduction by Dennis Hopper. Santa Monica, CA. 1998 (2004): Seventh Printing. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. 110pp, 83 illustrations in color and b&w. This is the catalogue that accompanied Viggo Mortensen's first one-man exhibition of writings, paintings, collages & photographs in 1998. While primarily known for his role as "Aragorn" in Peter Jackson's cinematic version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Mr. Mortensen is an artist whose boundless creative output embraces a myriad of media. Included with this publication is an Audio CD with music and spoken-word poetry. A pristine copy of the seventh printing, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.

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(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo. VIGGO MORTENSEN: I FORGET YOU FOR EVER. Santa Monica, CA: 2006. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. 132pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Hot off the press, "Viggo Mortensen presents "new contexts for old feelings, trusting the formation of sentences that may or may not take me anywhere" and the images that may or may not show us something we can see. Configurations of photographs and words captured near and far, shown clearly or hardly at all, in a continuing effort to trail lost memory and hold mirror shards to what we discard". A pristine copy of the first printing (issued in paerback only) still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 978-0-9763009-3 Inventory Number: 012084

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(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo.  Santa Monica, CA: 2005. First Paperback Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. 104pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. This is the paperback edition of the latest book from Viggo Mortensen. "New black and white photographs and words that look directly at loss, change, and renewal. In making Linger, he strives to find a still place from which to see and interpret the world around him. The imagery in this book deals frankly with family, strangers, and landscape that Mortensen has recently been able to spend extended time with, rather than hurriedly observe as just one more passing ghost with a camera and a notebook. Although we might occasionally find in these newer images hints of the chaotic abstractions that have recently dominated his work, Linger evidences a patience with things as they come to be and, consequently, a tranquility long-absent from both his photography and writing". A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9774869-5-8

$ 85.00

VIGGO MORTENSEN: THE HORSE IS GOOD     (3rd Edition)

(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo. VIGGO MORTENSEN: THE HORSE IS GOOD. Santa Monica, CA. 2004 (2007).: Third Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. 72pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This is the first edition of Viggo Mortensen's lovely document of equestrian photographs taken primarily during his travels while filming the motion picture "Hidalgo". Set in the late nineteenth Century, it is based on the autobiographical writings of real-life Pony Express rider Frank T. Hopkins, who claimed to have traveled around the world to the Middle East to compete with his mustang Hidalgo in a prize-laden three thousand mile race from Aden to Damascus. A loving tribute to the Horse, these exotic images were taken in Morocco, South Dakota, Montana, Iceland, New Zealand, Denmark, Brazil, Argentina, and California, with many shot from the photographer's point of view while in the saddle. A pristine copy of the paperbound third printing still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9763009-5-8 Inventory Number: 013821

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