Tristan Duke Glacial Optics

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• Yesterday at 5:03 PM

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“I went as an artist, seeking to craft functioning camera lenses from the ice of the glaciers, to capture portraits of this rapidly melting landscape through its own ice.”

Glacial Optics - Arctic Expedition — Tristan Duke

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/arts/design/tristan-duke-artist-california.html?searchResultPosition=1

 

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• Yesterday at 6:03 PM

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That is cool
No pun

 

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• Yesterday at 6:21 PM

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I have no idea what he’s doing here or how, but I’d be interested in learning more. From the NYT article after the author found a microscope with tiny images on glass slides:


“I’ve been experimenting with microminiature photography,” which as he went on to describe required that he develop both new techniques for hyper-reducing imagery but also new coating emulsions with grains even tinier than the wavelength of light capable of capturing such images.

 

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• Yesterday at 6:45 PM

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Kinda like those uranium-toned prints of above ground atomic bomb tests.