Archive for September, 2008
August Sander & Company
Wandering into the Kathleen Ewing Gallery in Washington the other day, I came across Kathleen’s “Sander Wall”, located in her gallery office and consisting of a grid formed by portraits done by the German master, August Sander. Seeing this striking presentation reminded me once again what a remarkable photographer Sander is. The “Sander Wall’, Kathleen [...]
Part One: Viggo Mortensen
From Recent Forgeries One hesitates to use stuffy words like polymath, but what other term describes Viggo Mortensen, noted film actor, painter, poet, writer, and photographer? In short, he is an artist who moves effortlessly from one medium to another and to my mind, the parts add up to an artist whose [...]
Part Two: Perceval Press
In the previous post I discussed the work of the artist, Viggo Mortensen, and mentioned in passing his founding of a small book publishing company, the Perceval Press. Aha, you say, a vanity press. Well, yes and no. Perceval does carry Viggo Mortensen’s published works of his art but it also puts out a [...]