Synopses & Reviews
A beautiful and utterly mesmerizing view of everyday objects.
Using security scanners and x-ray machines, Nick Veasey creates beautiful, unsettling, inside-out images that reveallike never beforethe intricacy of everyday objects, animals, and plants. Whether the spectacle of an x-rayed Boeing 777, the elaborate geometry of an mp3 players circuit boards, or the ethereal grace of a translucent daffodil, each page of this book is an absorbing work of art.
In a security-obsessed age, Veaseys work is subtly subversive, as it uses sophisticated technology to discover inner beauty rather than concealed dangers.
Veasey captures the x-ray images on film in a lead-lined studio. (He works on the outside of the studio when the machines are operating.) Once the x-ray has been exposed, it is scanned at ultrahigh resolution, using special equipment tailored for the process. These digital images are then composed and embellished on a computer. The whole process can take weeks or even monthsbut the results speak for themselves.
Synopsis
Using security scanners and x-ray machines, Veasey creates beautiful, unsettling, inside-out images that reveal the intricacy of everyday objects, animals, and plants. The process may take weeks or months, but the results speak for themselves.Viking Studio
About the Author
Nick Veasey is a self-taught, award-winning photographer who works with clients from all over the word. His x-ray photography has been commissioned by many of the worlds leading companies and his work featured in Time magazine, The New York Times, New York Daily News, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald and Die Zeit. He wears lead underpants.