Though there had been infrared spectrograms produced before 1910, as far as we know the first infrared images in print were taken by Professor Robert Williams Wood and published in the October 1910 Photographic Journal of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS).

Infrared radiation was discovered in 1800 and today has a multitude of applications including the laser in your CD player and those remote controls for your TV that always vanish down the back of the sofa. Infrared imaging is widely used, though primarily in other fields away from artistic photography such as forensics, medical and scientific imaging and astronomy.


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Kohei once described his solo exhibition setup during a conversation with Araki Yoshiyuki: “I turned out all the lights in the space and gave each visitor a flashlight. In this way, I was reconstructing the original conditions. I also enlarged the photographs to life size. I wanted people to look at the bodies in the photographs an inch at a time. But this is an uneasy situation. When it’s completely dark, the whole photograph is illuminated, but the viewer looks at it section by section. My original concept involved a corridor where points of light would be focused on the photographs. Viewers would look at them slowly . . . carefully. They might even touch the photos. That’s how I wanted to exhibit them. But then I realized that viewers would suffer if I forced them to look at the photographs in that way. So, that time I just used a board as a partition in the middle of the space.”

With Jimi, for instance, when we chose to do this album cover in June ’67, I decided to go all out on this. I used my psychedelic infrared technique, picked out the outfits, and Jimi had this incredible wardrobe. He said, “well, I got a bunch of clothes here” and he opened up his cupboard. The first thing that jumped out at me was a jacket with psychedelic eyes on it. It had been painted by, incidentally, Mick Jagger's brother Chris Jagger, who was an artist, and painted it for Jimi. I said, “this is what we use.” Jimi said okay, and he pulled it out. He called it his ‘gypsy eyes jacket’.  I said “yes, that's it.”

Because of my previous experience I knew how the infrared colour film reacted to the foliage. So we went out in June, which is like maximum foliage development time, everything is very green and bursting with photosynthesis, which my special technique captures. It takes a photograph almost like aura photography; it gets a kind of glow to it too.

I said “if we wanna make this picture really freaky, I wanna make a intense psychedelic fish-eye three dimensional picture, and make it really freak out.



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