Flora volta
Kirlian Electrophotograms - Robin Noorda
These images are made in the darkroom. They are contact photograms of leaves under high frequency voltage. Discharges in the electromagnetic field become visible as a halo around the leaves.
Electrophotography is also known as Kirlian photography, after the Kirlian couple, who worked with this technique at the beginning of the last century. They believed to be recording the aura of living beings.
The so-called 'phantom leaf' remains enigmatic: if you cut the top of a leaf, sometimes a vague echo remains on the film. The first tree pictures are a triptych with the phantom leaf effect in of Begonia leaves (top part had been cut away, but slight echo remains) and with fingerprints on a roll film (1983) . The square pictures below are Kirlians made in 2013.
Kirlian Electrophotograms - Robin Noorda
These images are made in the darkroom. They are contact photograms of leaves under high frequency voltage. Discharges in the electromagnetic field become visible as a halo around the leaves.
Electrophotography is also known as Kirlian photography, after the Kirlian couple, who worked with this technique at the beginning of the last century. They believed to be recording the aura of living beings.
The so-called 'phantom leaf' remains enigmatic: if you cut the top of a leaf, sometimes a vague echo remains on the film. The first tree pictures are a triptych with the phantom leaf effect in of Begonia leaves (top part had been cut away, but slight echo remains) and with fingerprints on a roll film (1983) . The square pictures below are Kirlians made in 2013.
Gynura aurantiaca