When we put satellites around the planet Darwinian nature ended. The earth became an artform subject to the same programming as media networks and their environments. The entire evolutionary process shifted...from biology to technology. Evolution became not an involuntary response of organisms to new conditions but part of the consensus of human consciousness. (McLuhan)
Portraits Taken With A Poloroid Aura Camera
Carlo Van de Roer‘s Portrait Machine series is a special kind of portrait photography. De Roer’s portraits are of friends, family, and well known personalities (you may have recognized Miranda July in the first photograph) with a Polaroid Aura Camera. Related to spirit photography, Aura photography uses electromagnetic readings to create the “auras” of colors in the photographs as well as a report explaining the reading. Though the process, readings, and reports are hardly scientific, they reveal much about how much we invest in portraiture. We continually attempt to translate an inner person from outer appearances, particular from a person’s face. The aura photography further reveals to what extent each person can be a mystery to another, even between those familiar to each other.
Via B/D
He blurs the border between painting and photography by experimenting with his printing surfaces. He dyes, tones (with tea), paints on, tears his photographs. He also makes…
Bodies in Nature Photography by Katja Kemnitz
More at fubiz:
PHEROMONE HOTBOX
“The Magician”
Photography by Shae DeTar, courtesy of the gallery
http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/gallery/19136/3/pheromone-hotbox
Ramona Zordini’s Photography
More at Hi-Fructose
http://hifructose.com/2014/04/07/ramona-zordinis-eerie-yet-erotic-photography/
Earth Magic: Rik Garrett’s Spectral Photography Of Nature, Femininity, And Witchcraft
Backstage at Gareth Pugh SS16
Photography Chloé Le Drezen
From The Hifi Book, a catalog for
Tech Hifi, a stereo component chain store. The photography in this
edition from 1981 is by Clint Clemens. Note that photos are slightly cropped
due to the binding. This photo is for a $17,995 system which includes far too many brands of stereo shit for me to feel like listing everything. More Tech Hifi here.
