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<p>The Earth is pockmarked with the evidence of ancient collisions&#58; huge craters blasted into its surface by thousands of pounds of meteorite fragments traveling at approximately 50,000 miles per hour. Ranging in age from those formed in this century to billion-year-old specimens, the Earth's meteorite craters are eroding at a rapid pace. The best-preserved impact sites are often difficult to access buried under ice, obscured by foliage, or baking in desert climes. These desolate landscapes are connected to another place outside of our world, and for photographer Stan Gaz they are sites of pilgrimage steps in a journey begun as a curious young boy accompanying his father on geological expeditions, and culminating in a six-year journey traveling the globe in search of these sites, much of that time spent leaning his twenty-pound, handheld Hasselblad medium format camera out of an open-sided helicopter. <p>The eighty-five astounding black-and-white photographs collected in <em>Sites of Impact</em> transcend the purely documentary and intersect the sublime. They are large-scale, aerial landscapes infused with a child's sense of wonder and an adult's preoccupation with the fragilit

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Author

Stan Gaz; with essays by Christian Koeberl and Robert Silberman

Publisher

Princeton Architectural Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781568988153

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Photography, Arts

Rating

4.1 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14