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The Rape Of Persephone by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Justin Mortimer - Family Dollar, 2009 Painting, Oil on Panel
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The Keyhole By Erwin Olaf, 2011
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Henri de La Rochejacquelein au combat de Cholet en 1793
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Kodak’s Cold War-Era Pinkstagram
The image you’re looking at is from Richard Mosse’s book Infra. It’s a collection of images in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo taken with infrared-sensitive film. Cool stuff. But why does it look this way?
Aerochrome is a Kodak film developed for aerial military surveillance. Its job was to pick out camouflage from surrounding vegetation. Healthy vegetation shows up as pink, and non-plant material shows up as darker blues.
It works because plants absorb blue and red wavelengths of light to fuel photosynthesis. They are green to our eyes because they reflect green light away from their leaves. But they also reflect infrared light, we just can’t see it with the naked eye. A tank painted like the forest won’t reflect infrared light in the same way a real tree will.
Military folks aren’t the only ones who use this. Check out how NASA uses infrared photography to study vegetation from space, and to image far-off planets.
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