An ambassador from Mars tunes the glowing glass coils of an interplanetary tele-translator inside an expressionist laboratory. Shot on 1930s orthochromatic nitrate film with an uncoated Zeiss Sonnar lens, the high-contrast print renders her deep brown skin and dark velvet lip makeup with dramatic intensity. Burnt-in darkroom edges, silvering, and scattered foxing mark the vintage paper.
From NeuraScene's ontology
- Era: 1930s
- Genre: Orthochromatic Horror Sci-Fi (photograph)
- Captured on: Contax I, Uncoated Zeiss Sonnar, Orthochromatic B&W Nitrate Film
- Look: Contrast: high
Each image in this gallery is set in a world drawn at random from NeuraScene's ontology of eras and genres, and made with the cameras, lenses, film stocks and artistic media that genre really used.
