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How do you think this ghostly photograph was made? David Maisel came across the Los Angeles Getty Research Institute’s X-ray archive.

“David Maisel is a visual artist who recently completed a residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles,” reports NPR. “It was there that he came across the museum's archive of X-rays, used in the process of conserving artwork.

“‘The ghostly images of these X-rays,’ he writes, ‘seem to surpass the power of the original objects of art.’ And so he began to photograph them.

“Maisel has photographed and scanned these X-rays to create an eerie body of work. The photos in his series, History's Shadow, explore his recurring themes of memory and excavation.

“According to Maisel, ‘They make the invisible visible, and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself, and the continuous presence of the past contained within us.’”

See more of the images at NPR.org