Camouflage studies

Nick Geboers

Weight	100 g
Dimensions	285 × 230 mm
printrun	print-run 50 copies, numbered
Format	285 x 230 mm
coverage	folder with Lambda print, 203 x 254 mm, on Kodak Professional Endura Metallic paper
language	English
Publisher	published by Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
year	2016
Design by	Johan Devrome

Weight: 100g

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Camouflage Studies, 2014/2016
“The camera, it was hoped, would make everything clearer.” (1)

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As a military application, a black and white film emulsion sensitive for infrared light was the key to break many codes. Infrared film is able to point out different absorbtions of thermal radiation, and thus reveal camouflaged installations. More specific camouflage techniques could be exposed by combining high grade black and white films and optic filters. Such colored filters provided huge possibilities for experimentation: isolating different wavelenghts to figure out color through black and white and laying out the pieces of the puzzle. These specialized imaging techniques were aimed to break ‘the most perfect cryptic powers’ and to reveal enemies with the chameleonic impulse. (3)

(1) Hanna Rose Shell, Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance, 2012, New York, Zone Books, p.89

(3) Hanna Rose Shell, Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance, 2012, New York, Zone Books, p.173