equestrian by andy jacobsohn

23 Responses to “equestrian by andy jacobsohn”

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• bobblack

  January 16, 2009 at 9:12 am

  “All right! The normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes. There’s also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills, like a god. It is the ordinary made beautiful, it is also the average made lethal. Normal is the indispensable murderous god of health and I am his priest…”Equus, Peter Shaffer

  A beautiful and dream-like photograh…the transformation of the mythologic….a re-imagining of the play and the relationship between horse and human and the amazing intelligence and connection that people have between those two remarkable creatues (people and horses)….what i love is this bolt of shine on her belly and back (a moon) and the swan-curve of her neck over the neck of the rider…
  that two become one, particularly in their shared love and need for one another….

  a wonderful and insightful photoraph…

  cheers
  bob
• Subhrajit

  January 16, 2009 at 9:21 am

  very very special! it is really refreshing to look at this image. this one is a conceptual photograph. for a long long time i shall keep coming back to this image. i am at a loss for words to explain my feelings but i think this photograph does not need any word of mine. thank you andy for sharing. wish you all the best.
• abele quaregna

  January 16, 2009 at 9:31 am

  Full of irony… it seems that horses are quite fashionable on Burn ;)
• Cliff

  January 16, 2009 at 9:46 am

  I also find it whimisical.
• Joni Karanka

  January 16, 2009 at 10:02 am

  The editor loves horses :o)
• katharina

  January 16, 2009 at 10:06 am

  yes…will we please see the white horse on the porch next ? :)
  (love horses !)
• ben

  January 16, 2009 at 10:12 am

  cool, could see this as part of a wider editorial piece.
• gina martin

  January 16, 2009 at 11:10 am

  a lovely and dream like image. thanks for sharing this with us david…
• Patricia Lay-Dorsey

  January 16, 2009 at 11:20 am

  Elliot Erwitt would LOVE this! Great eye, Andy. You turned what could have been a mundane portrait into an unforgettable image.

  Patricia
• Kyunghee Lee

  January 16, 2009 at 11:35 am

  It makes me smile… lovely photo…
  Thank you for sharing :))
• MH

  January 16, 2009 at 12:16 pm

  a+
• marcin luczkowski

  January 16, 2009 at 12:24 pm

  This image could be a part of some essay. And it could be a medium format.
  mentioned Trent Parke’s “Christmas tree bucket” is good example.
  but nice photo.
• marcin luczkowski

  January 16, 2009 at 12:24 pm

  http://www.noorimages.com/index.php?id=2736
• Charles Peterson

  January 16, 2009 at 1:34 pm

  Oooh, what a nice photo. First one in a while that I’ve thought “wish I’d of taken that!”
• Byron

  January 16, 2009 at 1:53 pm

  This is great, I really like the composition of course, but the light is spectacular. Even though I am a big fan of photographs done in this style, I have mixed feelings over the modern sense of horse and rider. Yesterdays photograph was a great contrast to this one, a very different style and a very different relationship between humans and horses. I once read that originally in Central Asia horses were never hunted for food because of the difficulty of the chase. Apparently if the horses caught sight or smell of humans they would run for 9 days straight
• Akaky

  January 16, 2009 at 3:26 pm
• Akaky

  January 16, 2009 at 4:59 pm

  AKAKY: That wasnt very nice.

  AKAKY IRL: What’s not nice again, or should I bother to ask?

  AKAKY: The Mr. Ed thing. This is a good picture, I think. Andy deserves better than you being snarkily negative.

  AKAKY IRL: I am snarkily negative; it’s who I am.

  AKAKY: It’s annoying, you know that, right?

  AKAKY IRL: Yup.

  AKAKY: And you dont care, do you?

  AKAKY IRL: Nope.

  AKAKY: Putz.

  AKAKY IRL: Likewise, I’m sure.
• Valery Rizzo

  January 16, 2009 at 5:45 pm

  Great shot, I love how she is wearing the horses head. Love the colors and lighting.
• erica mcdonald

  January 16, 2009 at 6:01 pm

  it’s a beaut..and so is the horse, Appaloosa?
• Joao Henriques

  January 16, 2009 at 8:23 pm

  so close to an eric howard photo i’ve seen in a book by terry hope…
• wendy

  January 16, 2009 at 11:03 pm

  ** light and lovely.. needed this tonight… thank you… ***
• alun severn

  January 17, 2009 at 6:20 am

  The more I see it, the more I like — elegant, mysterious, resonant.
• Aleksander Nowak

  January 17, 2009 at 7:03 am

  Absolutely fantastic, fairy-tale-magic-surreal-warm-sweet-breath-hold-me-close picture.