riversurface:

Ana Mendieta / Untitled, from the series Silueta Works in Iowa / 1978

realityayslum:

 Denis Brihat 

Rosée sur toile d'araignée (Dew on a spiderweb), 1962

jinxproof:

Kate Moss, 1999 | © Juergen Teller

antronaut:

La Poétique de l'Espace

thinkingimages:

Adrien Majewski, France, 1898-99

Effluvia from a hand resting on a photographic plate…
A magnetiser and well-known healer, Majewski made several series of experiments in 1898 and 1899 to record the magnetic fluid – contemporary accounts mention its rare powers – on a sensitized plate. The photographs were mostly obtained by the process called humid, in which the sensitised plate was immersed in a hydro-quinone bath the side covered with gelatin facing downward. The hand was resting on the glass side of the plate or was held a few centimeters away. The pose generally lasted 20 mins.