IEEE Spectrum March, 2012 - 4

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Susan hassler, s.hassler@ieee.org

Editor in chiEf

inding pictures to
accompany the feature
article in this issue
on LED lighting ("Driving
the 21st Century's Lights")
wouldn't have been a challenge for the art staff of most
magazines. They would have
just splashed images of colorful LED-lit homes and offices
all over the page. But Photo
& Multimedia Editor Randi
Silberman Klett and Associate
Art Director Brandon Palacio
knew that wouldn't do: IEEE
Spectrum readers don't mind
digital flat-panel detectors. "Film
nice pictures, but what they really
want are insights into the technology still has a little higher sensitivity and
resolves a little better," Arky says.
at work under the surface. Palacio
Arky, a technophile, found
and Klett wanted to give them that-
Spectrum's assignment satisfying on
literally. So they approached David
both aesthetic and technical grounds.
Arky, one of the few professional
We asked him to show the full
photographers familiar with the
sweep of lightbulb history, from the
nuances of X-ray imagery.
delicate filament of a reproduction
Arky began taking X-ray photos
more than 15 years ago, when one of Edwardian-era incandescent bulb to
the dense ceramic base of a cuttinghis clients asked him to create pictures resembling those produced by edge LED lamp-the Philips unit
that captured the U.S. Department
the X-ray scanners at airports. "He
of Energy's L Prize. Arky found he
asked me whether I knew anything
needed to combine several different
about this technique," says Arky,
who at the time did not. Undeterred, exposures to attain the results he
wanted-the X-ray equivalent of
he accepted the assignment and
the high-dynamic-range imaging
went searching for an X-ray facility
that's now becoming so popular.
where he could get it done.
Arky, a native of New Jersey,
Arky soon found a nondestrucalways likes working with
tive testing lab that specialized in
X-rays, but he confided that this
making X-ray images of such things
assignment was special to him.
as pipeline segments and welds. He
continues to use that lab facility, and "X-ray photos are a marriage of art
and science," he says. "Besides,
he still uses film to record his X-ray
images, even though the lab now also I grew up a mile from where
Edison pioneered the lightbulb." o
has the means to capture them using
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