Editing August Strindberg (section)

==Photography==
Strindberg's interest in photography resulted, among other things, in a large number of arranged self-portraits in various environments, which now number among the best-known pictures of him. Strindberg also embarked on a series of camera-less images, using an experimental quasi-scientific approach. He produced a type of [[photogram]] that encouraged the development and growth of crystals on the photographic emulsion, sometimes exposed for lengthy periods to heat or cold in the open air or at night facing the stars. The suggestiveness of these, which he called Celestographs, provided an object for contemplation, and he noted;
{{blockquote|Today, in these days of x-rays, the miracle was that neither a camera nor a lens was used. For me this means a great opportunity to demonstrate the real circumstances by means of my photographs made without a camera and lens, recording the firmament in early spring 1894.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iwm.at/publications/5-junior-visiting-fellows-conferences/vol-xxix/katharina-steidl-2/|title=Traces of/by nature:August Strindberg's photographic experiments of the 1890s|date=2011-02-10|website=IWM|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-06}}</ref>}}

His interest in the occult in the 1890s finds sympathy with the chance quality of these images, but for him they are also scientific.
In 1895 Strindberg met [[Camille Flammarion]] and became a member of the [[Société astronomique de France]].<ref>[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9667257k/f456.image ''Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France'' 1896, p. 438.]</ref> He gave some of his experimental astronomical photographs to the Society.<ref>{{cite book|first=Michael |last=Robinson|title=August Strindberg: Selected Essays|location=New York|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2006|page=260}}</ref>