{"id":13755,"date":"2013-05-09T02:47:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=13755"},"modified":"2013-05-09T05:26:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:26:22","slug":"kirlian-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/05\/09\/kirlian-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirlian photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nebarnix\/330697167\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kirlian1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kirlian1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>quarter3 (2006) by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nebarnix\/330697167\/\" target=\"_blank\">nebamix<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thinking recently about the resurgence of interest in the various forms of parapsychological and occult phenomena that were so popular in the 1970s, I&#8217;m surprised not to see more mention of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirlian_photography\" target=\"_blank\">Kirlian photography<\/a>, or the capturing of high-voltage coronal discharges on photographic plates. In the 70s the idea was that Kirlian photographs <a href=\"https:\/\/webspace.utexas.edu\/cokerwr\/www\/index.html\/kirlian.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">depicted auric fields<\/a>, and the phenonemon was widespread enough for a while enough to attract the attention of (among others) <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/david_bowie_its_not_the_side_effects_of_the_cocaine_or_was_it\" target=\"_blank\">David Bowie<\/a>. From a purely aesthetic point of view I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the appearance of these photographs. Flickr has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/377147@N25\/pool\/\" target=\"_blank\">a Kirlian photography pool<\/a> with a variety of examples (fewer than I&#8217;d hope) while there are more to be seen at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullspectrum.org.uk\/gallery\/info_27.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Spectrum<\/a> site where they specialise in high-quality Kirlian images. While browsing the pictures you could maybe listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K8d9s42XnJk\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kirlian Photograph<\/em><\/a> by Cabaret Voltaire, a track from their still strange and unsettling debut album, <em>Mix-Up<\/em>, itself a product of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:PSM_V49_D323_A_negative_discharge.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kirlian2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/kirlian2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A negative discharge (1896).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/12\/10\/thought-forms-and-auras\/\">Thought-Forms and Auras<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>quarter3 (2006) by nebamix. Thinking recently about the resurgence of interest in the various forms of parapsychological and occult phenomena that were so popular in the 1970s, I&#8217;m surprised not to see more mention of Kirlian photography, or the capturing of high-voltage coronal discharges on photographic plates. In the 70s the idea was that Kirlian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/05\/09\/kirlian-photography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kirlian photography&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[150,1301],"class_list":["post-13755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-science","tag-cabaret-voltaire","tag-david-bowie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3zR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}