johnny hazzard
November 28, 2009
November 20, 2009
15:58
Americans will spend $450 billion this Christmas. It would only take $10 billion to give the world clean water:
Reblog this please: http://water4christmas.com
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November 19, 2009
![Hiroshi Sugimoto. - Lightning Fields. Black and white photographs that the artist created by using a 400,000-volt Van De Graaff generator to apply an electrical charge directly to the film. The results are stunning patterns, for which the artist has very little to no control, which mimic massive lightning forms, fur, organic botanical matter, and even at times the patterns will take on the organic forms of an insect under a microscope.
This phenomena of electricity altering film is not new to photographers. Static electricity has been plaguing darkroom users, destroying images with unintentional electrical scars since the beginning of the medium. Sugimoto embraces and challenges this otherwise problematic occurrence in order to push the boundaries of what photography can achieve, while also offering a nod to previous scientific and photographic discoveries made by his predecessors. When speaking about this new series of work, Sugimoto has stated “The idea of observing the effects of electrical discharges on photographic dry plates reflects my desire to re-create the major discoveries of these scientific pioneers [Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday, and William Fox Talbot] in the darkroom and verify them with my own eyes.”](http://dailyserving.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Sugimoto.jpg)
Hiroshi Sugimoto. - Lightning Fields. Black and white photographs that the artist created by using a 400,000-volt Van De Graaff generator to apply an electrical charge directly to the film. The results are stunning patterns, for which the artist has very little to no control, which mimic massive lightning forms, fur, organic botanical matter, and even at times the patterns will take on the organic forms of an insect under a microscope.
This phenomena of electricity altering film is not new to photographers. Static electricity has been plaguing darkroom users, destroying images with unintentional electrical scars since the beginning of the medium. Sugimoto embraces and challenges this otherwise problematic occurrence in order to push the boundaries of what photography can achieve, while also offering a nod to previous scientific and photographic discoveries made by his predecessors. When speaking about this new series of work, Sugimoto has stated “The idea of observing the effects of electrical discharges on photographic dry plates reflects my desire to re-create the major discoveries of these scientific pioneers [Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday, and William Fox Talbot] in the darkroom and verify them with my own eyes.”
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