Hole In The Sun

by Viggo Mortensen (Photographer)

A series that documents and abstracts the urban backyard swimming pool as monument. Color and black and white photographs are composed from late afternoon reflections on a still pool to the distressed architectural elements found inside the later empty and abandoned pool. 52 reproductions.

Genres: Photography, Art

96 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2003

About the author

Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. is a Golden Globe- and Academy Award-nominated Danish American theater and movie actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter.

He is perhaps best known for his roles as Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Frank T. Hopkins in Hidalgo, David Shaw in A Perfect Murder, Tom Stall in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence and as Nikolai Luzhin in Cronenberg's Eastern Promises.

Reviews

[Keely · Rating 5 out of 5]

A poetic book of eloquent images ranging from the luscious to the tragic. Mortensen succeeds in transforming our view of this mundane setting into landscapes of color, texture, and meaning that stretch from ancient times to timelessness itself. References to prehistoric art flow comfortably and subtly into the universality of mortal experience and our place in both the internal and external cosmos. Yet, with the discerning eye of an old soul, the artist brings these monumental concerns to bear on that which could otherwise be viewed as utterly banal- there is the understatement of a patient mind behind this lens, and the nonjudgmental hand of a teacher. Thus, Viggo Mortensen reveals himself to his audience by those very elements he draws out in us.

[Shawna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can not get enough of the thought provoking and almost surrealist and disturbing work. A must for true art lovers