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This is my third trial of X-ray Film develop using Kodak Carestream XMG with R09 One shot developer but something to solve remain still.
The images you will see are my free and personal photographic reinterpretation of a fantastic phenomenon that fascinated me and whose existence I learned about some time ago, during my research on the various uses of X-ray plates.
In Cold War Russia, during the 1950s, the Communist regime had everything in hand, deciding the lifestyle, what to allow or not to allow the population, including what music should be listened to. The advent of jazz and rock'n'roll music in the United States, considered a symbol of contamination of capitalism, was immediately boycotted by any means; listening was forbidden and also punished with arrest.
A group of young rebels, the "stilyagi" (stylish), devised an absolutely original method to circulate Western music by smuggling: using rudimentary recording machines, with instruments made from old phonographs, they thought of reproducing very original records: the grooves were engraved on thin X-ray films in disuse rather than on the plastic material (vinyl, rigid and in any case too expensive); the central hole was made rudimentary by burning the plate with a cigarette. X-ray plates lent themselves very well to the purpose, being made of cheap material and easily available in all hospitals that had to dispose of them as they are flammable and potentially dangerous. In addition, the radiographs also had another characteristic, that of being flexible: the discs, which still had a rather low sound definition, were hidden in the sleeves of the coats, so that they could circulate rather easily. The price at which they were sold was modest, one ruble against five vinyl records of music authorized by the regime; so it could happen that on painful images (shins, ribs, skulls, vertebrae, etc. ..), one would secretly dance in the cellars with songs by Elvis Presley or Duke Ellington before, or on the Liverpool beat after. The phenomenon that lasted until the end of the '70s with the advent of the first cassette tapes, was called "The ribs of rock" and also "The music of the bone", then causing prices to skyrocket in the collecting market of the now unobtainable engraved radiographic supports.
The images I produced are the result of the digital union between real X-ray plates and original vinyls, using the covers, or details of them, as labels for the discs. However, I have reserved and added my personal interpretation which consists in having created a correspondence between the parts of the body imprinted on the plates and the images detected in the covers.
4x5 xray film, and the front half of 15-inch tele-Raptar works as an excellent soft focus lens!
6/2017
These x-rays were taken at the 121st Army Hospital in Nov. 1994. The orthopedic surgeon was checking to see how my healing was coming along. It wasn't looking good so he scheduled me for surgery in December to replace the rod in my femur for the second time. That would be the third rod I had in my femur and final one. I have the rod as a souvenir, now. It was removed Dec. 1997 in Tucson VA Hospital. Not sure if you can tell, but the x-rays to the right are that of my ankle. I had two screws in there. Those were removed while I was still a soldier stationed in Ft. Huachuca, AZ.
2018 February Alphabet Month
X-Rated X rays. The on-call staff at Lego City Emergency Room was busy. Eraser was brought in, complaining of losing his memory after he accidentally rubbed his head.. The doctor ordered an Xray, but the nurse said, "It's pointless."
"Of course it's pointless, it's an eraser."
The on-call pharmacist, Dr. Jekyll, (or was it Hyde?) was ready with his potion # 9. Nearby two previous patients were helping another guy who stumbled in, trying to connect his leg bone to the hip bone. Nurse Harley Quinn arrives from the Asylum, ready to reclaim her patient, when the custodian, John Broome, arrives to clean up this whole fiasco.
2018 February 23
(Okay, you Batman fans...Who created the character of Eraser (AKA Leonard Fiasco), whose first appearance was in 1966?)
just got hit by motorcycle while crossing the street, my knee cap is swollen, but Thanks God it's okay.
they use AGFA for the X-ray FILM, less grain.. :)
Description: Chandra's image of SNR 0540-69.3 reveals two aspects of the enormous power released when a massive star explodes. An implosion crushed material into an extremely dense (10 miles in diameter) neutron star, triggering an explosion that sent a shock wave rumbling through space at speeds in excess of 5 million miles per hour. The central intense white blaze of high-energy particles about 3 light years across was created by a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar. Surrounding the white blaze is a shell of hot gas 40 light years in diameter that marks the location of the supernova shock wave. The colors red, green and blue in the image correspond to low, medium and high-energy X-rays, respectively.
Creator/Photographer: Chandra X-ray Observatory
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Medium: Chandra telescope x-ray
Date: 2004
Persistent URL: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/snr0540/
Repository: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Gift line: NASA/CXC/SAO
Accession number: snr0540_xray
8x10 X-Ray Negative
Grace dressed as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
Apo-Ronar 360mm mounted on a flash synced Packard Shutter
Shot on Studio strobes with 2 Stop ND filter
Fuji HRT (green) X-Ray film
Developed in rotary processor
paRodinal 1+50 for 4 minutes
Holga 120CFN / Kodak T-mat-G/RA Xray Film
For this I had to cut a 24 x 16cm xray film into four 6 x 16cm stripes (16cm because the developing machine can't process smaller films) The problem with this is that xray film is really thick and therefore loading a 16cm wide stripe into the back of a Holga is a real pain (this is also also why the top and bottom of this shot are bent).