At 2:46 PM on November 30, 1954, 34–year–old Ann Hodges of Sylacauga, Alabama, was napping on her couch. Suddenly a nine–pound object bashedR through the ceiling of her home, smashed into her radio, ricocheted off and hit her in the thigh, reports the Smithsonian. The object was a 4.5–billion years old meteorite and it left a nasty bruise in the only well–documented case of a person being struck by a rock from space. A piece of that meteorite, worthless at the time, recently sold at auction at Christie’s fetching more money per gram than gold.

A meteorite is defined as a mass of solid matter, too small to be regarded as an asteroid, either traveling through space as a discrete unit or having landed on the earth and still retaining its identity. (...) What science knows about the phenomenon of meteoritic fall depends largely upon eye–witness accounts of the fireball, the landing of the meteorite, or both.

Studies of falls’ is a photobook which attempts not only to examine the meteorite as a mysterious physical object, but also the role which chance and accident plays in our lives, taking the meteoritic fall into Ann Hodges’ life as a starting point. The book is inspired by a theory, that collisions dont’t destroy, but create things.

Détails

Edité par Outer Space Press

2022

108 pages

33 x 24 cm

Reliure en toile

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