X-ray photography
Who knew that broken leg was a work of art? Better call your doctor and get a copy of your X-rays ASAP.
After he got a chance to play around with an X-ray scanner, Nick Veasey started taking images of things such as worn-out sneakers, toys, teacups and gadgets. The kind of stuff you wouldn’t exactly see as wonderful photographic material. However, the X-rays revealed an interesting beauty of their inner structure.
Radiologists and photographers share a common urge to capture the hidden depths of people and things, though rarely do their skills and methods overlap. Since 1996, Nick Veasey has been combining the art of photography and the science of radiology to create images that reveal the surprising, fragile, sometimes disturbing inner structures of the human body, animals, plants and objects. He’s collected around 200 of his favorites in X-Ray: See Through the World Around You, out in Britain this month.
Time magazine has the full story on Nick Veasey’s X-Ray photography.
You know what would also be cool? That X-Ray of that guy that had a nail in his skull and lived. Remember that news story? Now that’s art!
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