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Kirlian Photography is a process that uses pulsed high voltage frequencies & electron cascades to take pictures of usually invisible, radiating energy fields that surround us all. Photo techniques. It is a high voltage, contact print photography
Sheet film is placed on top of a metal plate, called the discharge or film plate. The object to photograph is placed on top of the film. High voltage is applied to the plate momentarily to make an exposure. The corona discharge between the object and discharge plate passes through and is recorded onto the film. When the film is developed you have a Kirlian photo of the object.
Kirlian effect is a visible electro-photonic glow of an object in response to pulsed electrical field excitation. Semyon Kirlian and his wife who first recorded and studied it in detail since 1930s.
Semyon Davidovich Kirlian was a Russian inventor and researcher of Armenian descent, who along with his wife Valentina Khrisanovna Kirlian, a teacher and journalist, discovered and developed Kirlian Effect.
During his life Semyon Davidovich invented many useful things. The city printing press used its electric furnace for casting fonts, flour mills – magnetic devices for cleaning grain.
Once he thought of getting a diamond out of ordinary sugar. Indeed, the strong pressure in the explosion of a sealed container with sugar turned it into crystals that perfectly cut glass.
In 1937, having completely developed the technology of making artificial diamonds, Kirlian wrote about his discovery to Stalin himself.
After a while in the apartment of the inventor there were employees of the NKVD, who withdrew all the crystals already received and the documentation of the experiments …
In 1939, Kirlian was accepted as a repairman for electrical equipment in the city hospital.
Having repaired the physiotherapy apparatus in the hospital (it used a high frequency current), he noticed a strange pink glow between the electrodes.
Kirlian decided to try to shoot a film on the glow in the field of high frequency current of an object.