Kirlian Photography - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The concert program from David Bowie's 1976 Station to Station tour featured some results of the technique, and in 1975 Bowie claimed to have achieved markedly different results, using his fingertip and his crucifix, before and after he took cocaine.
  • A 1979 movie called The Kirlian Witness featured the phenomenon as a major plot point.
  • Italian electronic band Kirlian Camera takes their name from this form of photography.

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