Video: Ice blocks by Friz Hoffmann
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
All over the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth, you can find these objects - huge bouldersbrought with it by advancing and receding ice during the Ice Age. For some reason, most people do not notice them at all, but for an American documentary photographer Fritz Hoffmann such stones are an object of passion. He searches for them all over America and photographs.
Fritz Hoffmann would hardly have been interested in a classic Japanese rock garden or the work of Gary Greenberg photographing grains of sand. After all, he is a fan of much larger-scale objects, namely, huge stone boulders scattered around the world by a glacier several millennia ago.
The first such stone was discovered by Fritz Hoffmann not far from his home in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Interested in the origin of a huge boulder far from any rocks and mountains, Fritz turned to the nearest tourist center, where he was told that it was an ice block (an erratic boulder, in scientific terminology).
Interested in this phenomenon, Fritz Hoffmann read a lot of literature about glacial rocks, after which he began to "hunt" for them throughout North America. Sometimes he finds a mention on the Internet about this or that ice block, sometimes, he discovers them quite by accident, just on the way.
Hoffmann is surprised by the sheer number and variety of erratic boulders, as well as admired for their beauty. However, he cannot understand in any way why people for the most part do not pay attention to these objects, even if they are right under their very noses. After all, a huge number of such stones are located right within the city limits, while a person can live nearby all his life, never casting a glance at the block.
Fritz Hoffmann called a series of his photographs dedicated to erratic boulders Pet Rocks (a combination of the words "pet" - "pet" and "rock" - "rock" or "breed"), thereby "revitalizing" these boulders, giving them the characteristics of living creatures.
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