Spirit Horses
by Tony Stromberg, Linda Kohanov
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Author: Linda Kohanov, Tony StrombergEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-15
ISBN: 1577314999
Number of pages: 168
Publisher: New World Library
Book Reviews of Spirit Horses
Book Review: Review published in 11/05 issue of California Riding Magazine by Kip Mistral
Summary: 5 Stars
To open Tony Stromberg's first book will be to open the portal to a dream that will take root in your soul.
In this dream, your spirit is moving effortlessly across grass-kissed hills, speeding across plains at light speed, releasing pungent scent as you joyfully leap sweet-smelling brush, and stopping suddenly with dust rising around you to gaze into the last moments of sunset. You are powerful, you are free, you are flying. You are illuminated--every moment and movement is blessed by light. In this dream, you are a horse.
In this way, one after another the photographs of this book glide like a shallow stream over smooth rocks, pulling the reader with them from page to page. The blended effect of the themes of free horse, nature and light is of flow (Tony specializes in photographing wild mustangs and range horses; horses in their free state). Windblown manes tangle in black and white, powerful bodies pull themselves forward in gilded color. Emotional, haunting expressions are engraved forever in sepia--if you have ever for a moment thought that horses don't have emotions, you will comprehend differently when you have seen the images in "Spirit Horses."
Clearly, expect to be surprised. What is behind this extraordinary work that has an exalted and even ecstatic effect, that you can't put down after you pick it up, that takes your breath away more than a little? That makes you wonder what it feels like to be a horse? You want to know more about the artist.
"Horses exemplify something to me that everyone longs for on some deeper, archetypal level," Tony (a horse owner himself and, accompanied by his wife Claudia, manages a ranch in New Mexico) explains in the introduction to his book. "After years of very precise and tightly directed advertising photography, I found a layer deep inside myself that literally craved something wild, something unrestrained, something raw and without boundaries-something out of control."
"When the seed for this book slowly began to germinate, I had grandiose plans. I felt I had a lot to share about our world's precarious lack of balance. But I soon realized I didn't have to say anything at all, at least not in writing. I realized the horses were already saying it, simply through their presence, and that my role, so to speak, was to share what I have seen in the language that makes the most sense to me."
"Horses are not complicated, but neither are the deepest spiritual truths. It is man who makes the simplest truth complicated. My hope is that whoever finds this book can absorb the message of those magnificent teachers through seeing and feeling, rather than through the intellect. It is also my hope that these images might reawaken a place inside us that resonates with that deeper, more ancient truth that horses embody and bring to our world. And that maybe we are ready to listen."
This book is heartbreakingly beautiful. It is radiant. Sit down with it and dream.
Summary of Spirit Horses
The power, grace, and freedom of horses had always resonated deeply with Stromberg. Through his photographs of these magnificent beasts, he sees a way to bridge what he calls “modern life?s disturbing separation between people and nature.? The result is Spirit Horses, showcasing 140 of Stromberg?s extraordinary color portraits of these animals, along with quotations from leading teachers and writers exploring equine wisdom and its intersection with spirituality. The photographs in Spirit Horses were shot in a variety of locales, from wildlife sanctuaries to private ranches to natural habitats in Europe and the western United States. These images — and the accompanying quotes — offer a portrait of horses as profound teachers, giving strength and stability to a world out of balance.
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