"Magnificent and frightening, they suggest an abrupt beginning and a shattering end." · May 21, 01:15 PM
In this weeks New Yorker magazine, art critic Vince Aletti raves about the photographs in Sites of Impact: Meteorite Craters Around the World by Stan Gaz:
“Gaz’s big black-and-white aerial photographs of meteor-impact sites in Namibia, Australia, South Africa, and elsewhere appear prehistoric; with the exception of a crater in Arizona and its attendant industrial sprawl, there are no signs of human habitation. Or maybe these images anticipate the end of history, a time when the earth returns to moonlike desolation, its skies black and its barren surface gouged. Gaz’s decidedly lunar landscapes may not be sci-fi fantasies — he took them hanging out of a hovering helicopter — but they’re almost unrecognizable as our home planet. Magnificent and frightening, they suggest an abrupt beginning and a shattering end.”
Sites of Impact will be published in June.
Click here to see more images from this amazing book.
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