linger Poems, prose and black & white photos. Some really lovely pictures here. Maybe a few too many of his "blurry swirly" ones (as I call them) which don't come across as well in black & white, but we can forgive him, I'm sure! A long and very moving "Letter to Brigit" on which he describes taking Brigit to the crematorium. Well worth a look. If you like what you see, go to the buy! page and purchase his work.

New black and white photographs and words from Viggo Mortensen 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. $35.00. Paper over board, ISBN 0-9774869-3-1, 104pp, 91/2 x 81/4. ART ART Poems/Prose Front cover: Cádiz 4, 2003 Back Cover: History 3, 2005 Frontispiece: Fall 6, 2005 Closed, 2005 León 8, 2005 11th and Lola 3, 2004 Cádiz 9, 2005 Iñigo, 2005 Fall 3, 2005 Reykjavik 3, 2005 Fall 4, 2005 Fall 7, 2005 Fall, 2005 Vor 11, 2003 Til Far, 1998 Skjoldenœsholm 7, 2003 Snekkerup 2, 2005 Fall 7, 2005 (detail) Valdeteja 3, 2005 Vestkysten, 2003 VIEW 6 El Ganso, 2005 Til Far 2, 1998 Bar, 2005 Maria, 2005 Reykjavik 4, 2005 (detail) Valdeteja 2, 2005 Cádiz 5, 2005 Cádiz 2, 2005 León 11, 2005 The Empty Quarter 4, 2002 South, 2002 South 2, 2002 Erfoud 46-53, 2002 Erfoud 45, 2002 Erfoud 54, 2002 (detail) Går, 2005 Gallery, 2004 Mod Syd, 2005 Fodrer, 2005 Mod Vest, 2005 Nearly 5, 2002 Snekkerup 3, 2005 (detail) Inquisición, 2005 Hindsight 33, 2002 Hindsight 36, 2002 Hindsight 23, 2002 Hindsight, 2002 Hindsight 35, 2002 Tamdacht 9, 2002 Ouarzazate 6, 2002 Merzouga 9, 2002 VIEW Ride 57, 2002 South 3, 2002 Hvammsfjörður, 2005 Bjarkalundur, 2005 VIEW Steingrímsfjarðarheiði, 2005 Langidalur, 2005 (detail) Langidalur, 2005 Dynjandi, 2005 Tamdacht 10, 2002 Brigit 1st August 3, 2005 Reykjavik 10, 2005 Semana Santa, León 5, 2005 Marts 2, 2004 Marts, 2004 Marrakech 4, 2002 Mod Øst, 2005 Marrkech 2, 2002 León, 2005 León 2, 2005 (detail) León 6, 2005 Lola and 25th, 2004 6th and Viggo, 2004 (detail) Reykjavik 11, 2005 Lejre 2, 2005 Kaitoke 7, 2003 Semana Santa, León 4, 2005 (detail) Lejre 3, 2005 (detail) Rachid's 5, 2002 Reykjavik 7, 2005 Ask Parrot, 2002 Bluff House, 2005 Maestranza, 2005 Cádiz 8, 2005 Semana Santa, León 2, 2005 León 10, 2005 January, 2005 Holandés, 2005 Valley Road, 2005 Vor 6, 2003 (detail) History, 2005 'Bye, Brigit, 2005 Linger Patreksfjörður READ Parker Blood of Time March untitled ("Te veo como si...") untitled ("Junio: Tengo un libro...") READ Truce untitled ("Don't be bitter...") Back to Babylon Pioneers Done Letter to Brigit Eleonora untitled ("The dog cringes...") Layover untitled ("Can you join...") READ Prepare untitled ("Que te dejen seguir...")

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