Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (lahir 20 Oktober 1958) merupakan seorang sutradara, aktor, fotografi, dan penyanyi berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat. Dia menjadi yang terkenal dalam film A History of Violence, Hidalgo, Boiling Point dan sebagai Aragorn di Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogi. Ayahnya berasal dari Denmark dan ibunya berasal dari Amerika Serikat.

Bibiliografi

• Ten Last Night (1993), his first collection of poetry;
• Recent Forgeries (1998), ISBN, 5th Edition, documents Viggo's first solo exhibition and includes a CD with music and spoken-word poetry. Introduction by Dennis Hopper;
• Errant Vine (2000), limited edition booklet of an exhibit at the Robert Mann Gallery. Only about 300 were published at the time of the exhibition so it is a very rare book;
• Hole in the Sun (2002, ISBN), color and black and white photographs of a back yard swimming pool;
• SignLanguage (2002 ISBN), a catalog from an exhibition of his works, combining photographs, paintings, and poetry into a multimedia diary of his time in Selandia Baru while filming The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Coincidence of Memory (2002, ISBN Third Edition, in this book, the artist combines photographs, paintings, and poems that cover his artistic output from 1978 to 2002;
• Mo Te Upoko-o-te-ika/For Wellington (2003), ISBN, a book to accompany the joint exhibitions at Massey University and the Wellington City Gallery during the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King;
• 45301 (2003), ISBN, Abstract images, fragments and phrases from poems create this photography book. Many of the photographs were shot during travels to Morocco, Cuba, and the northern plains of the United States;
• Un hueco en el sol (2003), a small booklet was published to accompany the exhibition "Un hueco en el sol" at the Fototeca de Cuba in Havana. In Spanish;
• Miyelo (2003), ISBN-X), a series of panoramic photographs of a Lakota Ghost Dance. It also tells about the events leading up to the massacre at Wounded Knee;
• The Horse is Good (2004), ISBN, a photography book partly shot during his work on the film Hidalgo about horses as partners, teachers, and fellow travelers. Images from Morocco, South Dakota, Montana, California, Iceland, Selandia Baru, Denmark, Brazil, Argentina.

Diskografi

Diskografi utama ialah Don't Tell Me What to Do, Intelligence Failure, One Less Thing to Worry About, One Man's Meat, Live at Beyond Baroque, The Other Parade, This That and The Other, Live at Beyond Baroque 2, Pandemoniumfromamerica, dan Please Tomorrow.

Pranala luar

• Viggo Forums Viggo Mortensen Forum - Fan Forum network
• Viggo Forums
• Viggo Mortensen di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• Mortensen's publishing company Perceval Press
• Brego.net, Extensive resource on Viggo's films, art, music and political activism, with photos and video clips.
• [1], Tiscali biography
• viggo-works.com, Probably the more often updated Viggo website. News, lots of links, pictures, forum.
• SotBK.net, fansite
• [2], fansite
• (Prancis) The Eye and the Hand The place to become familiar with Viggo Mortensen the artist. Discussions about Viggo Mortensen's artwork. Glosses and comments about his paintings and photographs, translation of his poems. Personal artwork' gallery.
• Obsession
• Viggo Fan Base, Well-established site encompassing all things Viggo. Active discussion forum with Fan Fics, and much more.