Seeing science How photography reveals the universe
Book - 2019
Seeing Science' offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing science and building human knowledge, from micro to macro levels and everything in between. Photography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we look at the world. Scientists use photography as a way to gather information, explore, and learn, but just as important, photography is also used to promote scientific advances and has long served as an interface between the sciences and the public. Science is less an edifice of facts than a process of discovery and inquiry. In this way, it is not dissimilar to art; artists have engaged with some of the same scientific principles, us...ing photography to imagine the world differently and present us with new experiences and ways of seeing. This volume presents both perspectives, exploring how science is made perceptible, featuring over three hundred images and sixty short texts.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Illustrated works
- Published
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New York, NY : [Baltimore] :
Aperture
2019.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBN
- 9781597114479
- 01. Photography + Science: knowledge. Pillars of creation ; Photography and science ; Data collection radically reformed ; Shock and emotion ; The secret lives of animals ; The measurers measured ; The nature of polyhedra ; The moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite ; One giant leap for mankind ; Naturalistic photography ; Lights, camera, specimen ; Snow crystals ; The look of criminality ; Facial recognition ; A lab in a smartphone ; Ornithological photographs ; Animal locomotion ; Wax bodies of La Specola ; Startling infrastructure ; Displaying the sciences ; The "bird woman" of Block Island ; The story of Photo 51
- 02. Photography + Science: culture. The women of NASA ; At a White House science fair ; Light, camera, action ; Guide to computing ; When workers suit up ; Photography and environmental practice ; Beneath the surface ; Natural wonders ; Equipment and specimens ; The green bunny ; The march of science ; Escape velocity ; Psychokinesis tests ; Hadron Collider ; Stoned moon ; Seen by so many ; Science in silhouette ; Plants and public art ; The color of toxicity ; Visual generics ; Sites of technology ; The last pictures ; Scared scientists ; Witnessing climate change ; Empathy and science journalism ; Picturing science
- 03. Photography + Science: imagination. Pepper the robot ; The wonder of evidence ; Wolfgang Pauli's aura ; Seen in a flash ; Representing science at work ; Seeing around corners and below surfaces ; Blood samples ; Vanitas (in a petri dish) ; Science fiction and moving images ; Digital blends ; Sampling worry ; A genetic self-portrait ; Photochemical residue ; Science photography and the art museum ; The nature of sciences ; Experiments and observations ; Health of the planet ; Ways of knowing ; Abstraction and beauty ; Virtual reality
- A timeline of science and photographic seeing.