Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv2rHAPHyzw[/embed] I always find it interesting to see artist's source material or mood boards. Where did a project begin? What sparked someone's interest? I decided to share a video of Thelma Moss from UCLA discussing "energetic things." In putting together my video piece Beyond The Pale I was influenced by pseudoscience and early instructional videos. Kirlian photography is a method of capturing electromagnetic coronal discharges, which some people believe to be auras. It was developed in the Soviet Union in 1939 and made known in the West with the publication of Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain. As I have discussed a number of artists working with photography in both traditional and new media methods I thought it might be interesting to look at photography in a scientific way. Before we wondered if it was a good thing or not that "everyone is a photographer today?" there was a definite debate about photography as science versus art.