Kirlian Signs of Life, third edition
This collection of cameraless artworks by the celebrated photographer Robert Buelteman was first published in 2010. This third edition includes a fourth portfolio, Life and Shadow, that was made since the artist was diagnosed with Neuroborreliosis, or Lyme Disease of the central nervous system.
Kirlian Signs of Life, third edition
This new revision of the first catalog of Buelteman’s unique cameraless, lensless, computer-free imagery, measures 8.5 x 11 inches and is now 47 pages in length, was released in the Spring of 2009.
Forty photographs selected from four portfolios created over the last eighteen years are presented with an introduction by Robert McDonald, along with essays by the artist. Included in this new revision are works from Life and Shadow, images made since the artist was diagnosed with neurological Lyme Disease in the winter of 2007.
These images have caused a sensation wherever they have been exhibited.
Richard Pitnick, in Color Magazine, wrote:
Robert Buelteman conjures up visions of a mad Dr. Frankenstein working feverishly in his laboratory as he describes his own elaborate process working with electricity to create his gloriously luminous botanical photographs.
But where his fictional counterpart tried to reanimate dead tissue harnessing the power of nature, Buelteman, with no less intention to understand the mystery and laws at the heart of creation, uses the living pathways of plant cells and tissues to channel electricity into a wondrous display of light, color and energy.
