December 13, 2017
I grew up in New York City and never really had much to do with horses. (Though I do have a photo of me when I was a kid alongside a cute pony. I don’t really remember much about the photo though I do know that the pony was not a regular part of my life.)
My author’s copies of my book HORSES came yesterday. This book is a revision of the original book with new photos and new text, but I was reminded of what happened when I wrote the original book a dozen years ago. For the original book, I was photographing horses in farms in Columbia County in New York State where there were many horse farms. I was just motoring around casually, looking at horses and photographing them when I could get close enough to them from country roads. What often happened though, is that I spent a lot of time just looking and enjoying watching them. And I thought of the cowboy movies and chariot races I had read about and seen in movies. In my mind and in my book, seeing horses galloping about a field is like watching a bit of history playing out in front of you.
Here’s what I wrote in my book:
I would enjoy reading about your own thoughts about horses in your life.
The updated edition of Seymour Simon’s book HORSES, cited by the Common Core Standards as an Exemplar Text, will be published on December 26, 2017, and is now available for pre-order.
Posted by: Seymour Simon
