Video: X-ray machine instead of a camera: multi-colored "bio-frames" Arie van't Riet
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At the end of October this year, at the TEDx conference in Groningen, the Dutch scientist Arie van't Riet took the stage and gave a short TED Talk about how physics and medicine are two classes in which he devoted his entire life - unexpectedly led to the fact that people began to call him an artist.
Arie Vant Riet studied radiation physics at the Delft University of Technology and completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Utrecht. As a practicing radiologist, he was able to witness with his own eyes the rapid improvement in the quality of the image obtained on X-rays.
One day one of his colleagues asked him to take an X-ray of the painting. Until then, Van't Ritu had never had to work with such delicate objects, but, according to the scientist, "it worked." Among other factors, the company's success was influenced by the high content of heavy metals in paints. This incident made him think about what other thin objects could be illuminated with X-rays. Then he began to experiment with fresh flowers, starting with a bouquet of tulips. An analog image, which is obtained on a radiograph, resembles a negative of black and white photographic film. Van't Riet digitized the image, inverted the image, and then selectively tinted it in Photoshop. “And then someone told me it was art,” the scientist laughs, “and I became an artist.”
He was pleased with the resulting images, but he soon got bored of taking pictures of plants exclusively, and he decided to add insects to the compositions. But even this was not enough for him. After an unsuccessful experience with a stuffed bird bought from a taxidermist (the metal frame and padding did not look particularly impressive in the pictures), Van't Rit began looking for the intact bodies of animals that died from natural causes or as a result of an accident. So in his photographs were birds, turtles, frogs, snakes, and even cats and monkeys.
The scientist calls his compositions "bio-frames". As the greeting on the artist-scientist's personal website says: “I prefer to take X-rays of everyday scenes: a butterfly flitting around a flower, a fish in the ocean, a mouse in a field, a heron on the riverbank, a bird in a tree, and so on. Each time I am faced with a difficult task: to take a picture so that it conveys the character of the scene, gives rise to questions, arouses curiosity. I hope that in most cases I have successfully coped with the task."
Hawaiian photographer Joshua Lambus uses a similar technique, but specializes exclusively in marine life.
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