Body projection?

English translation: projection photography, image projection onto the (human) body

13:21 Jun 11, 2011
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
English term or phrase: Body projection?
What is the English term that describes a technique of displaying images/video (e.g. from na over-head projector) on the human body, like in the following pictures:

http://www.sealifecenter.com/pictures/naslain_christophe_nus...
http://g3.img-dpreview.com/A8ECCBD24405444F9BF246A90F5EF571....

Is "projection on the body" correct? Or is there a more common / specialist phrase for that?

TIA.
Mariusz Stepien
Poland
Local time: 02:48
Selected answer:projection photography, image projection onto the (human) body
Explanation:
Depending on the sentence:
projecting images onto the human body
images projected onto the human body

Like here:
www.daportfolio.com/76887/about
www.side-line.com/forum/threads.php?id=21864_0_20_9675...
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juvera
Local time: 01:48
Grading comment
Both answers are OK but this one seems better to me.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +3body projection
Mike Birch
5projection photography, image projection onto the (human) body
juvera


  

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body projection?
projection photography, image projection onto the (human) body


Explanation:
Depending on the sentence:
projecting images onto the human body
images projected onto the human body

Like here:
www.daportfolio.com/76887/about
www.side-line.com/forum/threads.php?id=21864_0_20_9675...


juvera
Local time: 01:48
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Both answers are OK but this one seems better to me.
Notes to answerer
Asker: That's it I think. "Projection photography" sounds and googles better than "body projection".

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
body projection?
body projection


Explanation:
In the first reference the photographer entitles her series of works "Body Projections", and gives the description "projections onto (my own) body".
I find the phrase inelegant and unclear but it seems to have currency.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-06-11 15:29:34 GMT)
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I agree Mariusz. It sounds faintly ridiculous, but seems to be the term in use. I suppose a literalist idea of projecting an image onto a body may not fit with an artistic concept of adding the body to the image.


    Reference: http://www.saatchionline.com/art/Photography-Digital-Body-Pr...
    Reference: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=447832
Mike Birch
Local time: 01:48
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
Notes to answerer
Asker: "Body projection" sounds like "throwing a body somewhere"... or is it just me?

Asker: Thanks, shame I can't split points (I'd make it 3:1).


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Catharine Cellier-Smart: a google image search of "body projection" brings up lots of photos of images/video displayed/projected onto bodies
26 mins
  -> Thanks

agree  B D Finch
18 hrs

agree  Thuy-PTT (X)
5 days
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