Searching for the Cold Spot
Titel | Searching for the Cold Spot |
Typ | Buch |
Jahr | 2017 |
Autoren | Mattes Hanna |
Verlag | Deutscher Kunstverlag |
Ort | Berlin/München |
ISBN | 978-3-422-07418-7 |
Schlagwörter | 21. Jahrhundert, artist's book, Fotografie (Landschaft), Künstlermonographie, Stone Telling |
Zusammenfassung | In mythological accounts, meteorites are described as magical bridges between heaven and earth. This reflects their remarkable property of bringing both destruction and life. Depending on a meteorite's size, its strike can be as powerful as an atomic bomb. It has the potential to destroy life and devastate the surrounding landscape. At the same time, we now know that meteorites were responsible for bringing water and amino acids - the main ingredients of human life - to the young planet Earth. The images in this book are analogue photos of stones and craters taken over the course of three years. Hanna Mattes scrutinized the mineral collections of natural history museums in Haarlem, Berlin, London, and New York, selecting and recording specimens, and travelled to Upheaval Dome, Barringer Crater, Sunset Crater, and Ubehebe Crater to photograph these impact sites where meteorites struck long ago. She later transformed the negatives of meteorites using watercolors, creating images that merge painting and photography. |
Signatur | KM Mattes 2017 |