This week we learned that Tolstoy said that there are, “as many kinds of love as there are hearts,” which must frustrate photographers. How can they hope to represent this endless variety of feelings?
For the past few years, the New Zealand photographer Carlo Van de Roer has found a solution to the problem. He shoots portraits with a Polaroid AuraCam. Developed by an American scientist in the 1970s, the camera gathers biofeedback through sensors attached to the subject. The data is communicated through colors superimposed on the image, with an explanatory diagram on the back.
A green aura suggests a caring person, blue a contemplative one, and red a strong will. Where the colors appear mean different things: the color above the subject’s head indicates what the subject is experiencing; on their right, how other people see them; on the left, what future holds. The colors envelop the subjects in a fog of their own mystery and question viewers about their own.
In one of the most notable books of 2013, the publishing house Damiani has done justice to these magical and celebrated photographs.
Book
The portrait machine Project
Carlo Van de Roer
Damiani, Mars 2013.
30 €
For more informations : http://www.damianieditore.com/en-US/product/331
