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MARTIN KILMAS
German photographer Martin Klimas photographs sound using paint. He starts by putting different colored paint on top of some translucent material, underneath which is a speaker. When he cranks up the volume, the carefully selected mixtures of paint explode from the surface shooting into the air, intermixing to creating beautiful patterns. Klimas photographs these motion and each photo becomes an analogue representation of the music.
After 70 litres of paint and 2 blown speakers, German artist Martin Klimas' spectacular photographs are lusciously detailed, and hint at an answer the question "What does music look like?". Kilmas places the vibrant paints over the diaphragm of a speaker and turns up the volume. For each image, Klimas selects music — typically something dynamic and percussive, like Karlheinz Stockhausen, Miles Davis or Kraftwerk — and the vibration of the speaker sends the paint aloft in patterns that reveal themselves through the lens of his Hasselblad.
PHILLIP HALLSMAN
Halsman had his first success in America when the cosmetics firm Elizabeth Arden used his image of model Constance Ford against the American flag in an advertising campaign for "Victory Red" lipstick. A year later, in 1942, he found work with Life magazine, photographing hat designs; a portrait of a model in a Lilly Daché hat was the first of his 101 covers for Life.
EADWARD MUYBRIDGE
High speed photography
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection In 1878, Muybridge developed the process for making rapid sequences of photographs of motion. He used electrical triggers in order not to jar the camera in the act of releasing the shutter. This process allowed for methodical, reliable, and repeatable images.
"ONLY PHOTOGRAPHY HAS BEEN ABLE TO DIVIDE HUMAN LIFE INTO A SERIES OF MOMENTS"
ORI GERSHT
Shutter speed is exactly what it sounds like: It's the speed at which the shutter of the camera closes. A fast shutter speed creates a shorter exposure — the amount of light the camera takes in — and a slow shutter speed gives the photographer a longer exposure.
