EQUUS photographer signing her work Friday night at Moon News

This Friday night , November 30, from 5 to 7pm , award winning filmmaker and photographer Susan Friedman will be at Moon News signing copies of her first edition volume of EQUUS, a limited edition of a collection of equine portraits that were exhibited at SFMOMA in September and October 2007.

Many of the portraits featured in EQUUS were taken on the ranches of the Coastside from a Rocky Mountain horse on Skyline, to an Irish Gypsy Cobb from Moss Beach to the regal "Cole", a stunning Tennessee Walker from Pescadero.   Several of the images that were exhibited in the SFMOMA show are now on view at Moon News. 

EQUUS
SUSAN FRIEDMAN
About The Edition
This cloth-bound edition, each individually signed and numbered, contains 26 color plates.
Included in the book is a 7x7 inch signed and numbered image of Cole, printed with archival Epson ultrachrome pigment inks on rag watercolor paper. EQUUS is limited to an edition of 100.

About The Book.
This volume represents a return to Friedman’s origins as an artist. Earlier in her career, she made many one-of-a-kind books – sequenced images that bound together an idea as well as a series of pictures.  For the bulk of the last 20 years, while Friedman was professionally immersed in film, she often found herself returning to still photography, drawing inspiration from the motion studies of Muybridge, and often printing the images she captured in the order that they were taken.
"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.  The series of images and motion studies complied in this book represent the real strength, freedom and individual spirit that exists in the featured horses, and in us, despite the constraints imposed by frame, and by the confines of our daily lives.  In the careful ordering of the images of my EQUUS collection, I hope to capture the essence of that connection and place it in a tangible, solid context."
The images included in this volume enjoyed their debut exhibition in the Café Museo section of the SFMOMA in September of 2007.