In addition to being a well known biologist, Dr. Eisner is also famous for capturing the natural world in astonishing images. Due to the limitation of Parkinson’s disease, he started exploring the capabilities of a new tool for capturing the natural world: the colour copier. Dr Eisner created artistic images of three-dimensional objects like flowers and leaves and even fanciful concoctions of shells. How did these images come to be? “I simply imagined how the component parts of a given arrangement might fit together,” Dr. Eisner writes, “and laid out the parts in accord with the vision. It was like playing with a Lego set. There were only two provisos. Parts had to be laid out upside down on the copier’s stage, because the copier ‘sees’ the stage from beneath, and the arrangements, once composed, had to be covered with a black velvet cloth to exclude ambient light from the picture.”
His artistic creations are simply spellbinding. I especially love the shells collection. They can all be found at the following link to the slideshow.
Link: Slideshow
Source & Image: New York Times
Tags: Eisner | Colour Copier | Shell | Image | Art
Comments