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Another one from Atlas Obscura - are these photographs?

Dec 8, 2019 19:35:10 #

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Documentary photographer makes images of the radioactive past of Chernobyl...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chernobyl-x-ray-photographs?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f3c8307399-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_06_Not_NYC&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-f3c8307399-64404669&mc_cid=f3c8307399&mc_eid=94920dcae5

Andy

Dec 8, 2019 21:31:43 #

Robg

Short answer - “no”. The real photos in the article are interesting, but the exposed plates say nothing to me.

Dec 8, 2019 22:14:29 #

ButchS Loc: Spokane, WA

Robg wrote:

Short answer - “no”. The real photos in the article are interesting, but the exposed plates say nothing to me.

I vote “Yes”. Radiographs are just another word for x-rays. I believe that most photographic scientists would classify x-rays as photographs.

The plates used are “photographic plates”.

Dec 9, 2019 10:46:55 #

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

AndyH wrote:

Very interesting.

Dec 10, 2019 11:46:39 #

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Photographs are defined as images made from light. I believe, although x-rays are not visible to our eyes, they are considered a form of light, which would make them photographs.

Jan 1, 2020 08:26:13 #

Darkroom317 Loc: Mishawaka, IN

Yes. They are photographs. Cameras are not necessary to make photographs. Some of the plates are rather interesting.

Other artists have made similar work. Among them is Shimpei Takeda: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3b5xkj/shimpei-takeda-123

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