Cameraless Botanical Photographs Captured by Electrical Pulses
source: http://www.featureshoot.com/2012/01/cameraless-botanical-photographs-captured-by-electrical-...
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San Francisco Bay Area photographer Robert Buelteman has been making images for over 20 years. This work, Through The Green Fuse, was made through an elaborate practice of camerless photography involving electrical pulses and hand-painting. Some images can take up to 150 attempts to get right. Buetleman writes:
My cameraless photographs are images created as an interpretation and celebration of the design of being. In March 1999, I began to feel a need to explore the tools of my medium beyond both their traditional and innovative uses as means to advance self-expression. In contrast to those artists who are turning to technology for additional tools to achieve their own freedoms, I turned to simplicity, mindful craftsmanship and the direct exposure of photographic materials to exercise my own freedom of expression.
Using neither camera nor lens, my new technique has more in common with Japanese ink brush painting and improvisational jazz than it does with the current practices of photography. Each delivery of light, like every brush stroke or note played, is unrehearsed, and, once released, cannot be undone. The recognition that light in all its manifestations nourishes my life allows me to accept the rigorous demands of this process of imaging as an exercise in awakening. Although the technique has no relationship to those I have used previously, the quality of the creative experience is similar to that of photographing the landscape of my beloved California.
My cameraless photographs are images created as an interpretation and celebration of the design of being. In March 1999, I began to feel a need to explore the tools of my medium beyond both their traditional and innovative uses as means to advance self-expression. In contrast to those artists who are turning to technology for additional tools to achieve their own freedoms, I turned to simplicity, mindful craftsmanship and the direct exposure of photographic materials to exercise my own freedom of expression.
Using neither camera nor lens, my new technique has more in common with Japanese ink brush painting and improvisational jazz than it does with the current practices of photography. Each delivery of light, like every brush stroke or note played, is unrehearsed, and, once released, cannot be undone. The recognition that light in all its manifestations nourishes my life allows me to accept the rigorous demands of this process of imaging as an exercise in awakening. Although the technique has no relationship to those I have used previously, the quality of the creative experience is similar to that of photographing the landscape of my beloved California.
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