Photography Through Electrocution
Robert Buelteman takes electrifying photographs, but he doesn’t even use a camera. Instead, he places flowers directly onto film and shocks them with 80,000 volts. His process is a refined, high art version of Kirlian Photography—a photographic technique popularized in the 1930s. Buelteman places a whittled, near translucent flower directly onto color film, then he…
