Robert buelteman biography
- Robert Buelteman is a celebrated fine art photographer whose works connect audience to subject in an emotionally transcendent manner, in the tradition of.
- Robert Buelteman is an American artist.
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Robert Buelteman
Life and Shadow: 2009-2017
Rancho Corral de Tierra: 2002-2007
Sangre de Cristo: 2003-2006
Thru the Green Fuse: 1999-2003
BIOGRAPHY
California photographer Robert Buelteman’s images are “Energetic Photograms” — made with neither camera nor lens by placing living plants on his easel made of a sheet of metal encased in Plexiglas and applying high-voltage electricity and fiber optic light to render the image. Photograms employ the essential nature of photography: the ability of light-sensitive media to capture an image when exposed, regardless of the source of the exposure, whether it be light energy passed through the aperture of a camera, or, in Buelteman’s work, via his hand-delivered high-voltage electricity and fiber optic technique.
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Fallen Lichen
Abstract
Fallen Lichen was made without the use of cameras, lenses, or computers. The first step in the technique is to choose an object and it is then sculpted to alter its form and opaqueness. The imaging easel is composed of a piece of aluminum sheet metal, floated in a solution of liquid silicone placed between two sealed pieces of thick glass, and surrounded by a safety fence to avoid electrocution. It is connected by an automotive spark plug cable to a transformer. Once the final artistic effect is complete, a transparency film is placed on an easel in darkness. The object is then placed upon the easel and the energy is transmitted.
DOI
10.5642/steam.201301.12
Recommended Citation
Buelteman, Robert (2013) "Fallen Lichen," The STEAM Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 12. DOI: 10.5642/steam.201301.12
Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss1/12
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Robert Buelteman is a celebrated fine art photographer whose works connect audience to subject in an emotionally transcendent manner, in the tradition of eastern wisdom and western revelation. Whether examining the spirit of the landscape or inquiring into the design of nature, his work is a powerful extraction of beauty and substance revealing unrecognized dimensions in the commonplace.
Mr. Buelteman developed his affection for nature as a child growing up in a small town on the peninsula south of the city of San Francisco. From his family home he looked out on the Santa Cruz Mountains, whose deep canyons, redwood groves, and daily tides of ocean-borne fog inspired the veneration of life and light that appear in his work today.
He has published seventeen photographic portfolios over his forty years in photography, and three of these, The Unseen Peninsula (1994), Eighteen Days in June (2000), and Signs of Life (2009) were published as award-winning monographs. In 1999, Buelteman left photographic tradition behind in creating Through the Green Fuse, a portfolio of energetic photo