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Fotografie der Wissenschaft + Wissenschaft der Fotografie
Christin Müller

With works from Anna Atkins, Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch, Hans Danuser,
Liz Deschenes, Marion Denis, Harold Edgerton, Léon Foucault, Thomas Freiler, Bernhard Gardi, Raphael Hefti, Jules Janssen, Irène Joliot-Curie, Markus Krottendorfer, Albert Londe, Aïm Deüelle Lüski, Maschinensehen (Henning Arnecke, Lisa Bergmann, Christoph Oeschger, Elke Reinhuber), Melanie Matthieu, Aurélie Pétrel, Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, Hannes Rickli, Thomas Ruff, Adrian Sauer, Laurent Schmid, Sarah Schönfeld and Simon Starling.

112 pp.
with illustrations
thread-sewn paperback with open spine



Leipzig September, 2013
ISBN: 9783944669175
Edition Number: 1

Width: 21 cm
Length: 27 cm

Language(s): English, German

Editor
Christin Müller

Designer
Trix Wetter

Text
Michel Frizot, Christoph Hoffmann, Kelley Wilder

Scientific images are fascinating, because they reveal things and processes that remain hidden to the human eye. It has become possible to delve ever deeper into micro- and macrocosms and capture these worlds in images. In science does photography primarily serve as the visual aid of the researcher, or does is play a much larger role? Since the invention of photography in the 1830s new demands have been placed on the capacities of the medium as a result of developing scientific practices, which have led to the continuous fine-tuning of the possibilities of the photograph. Science thus produces images based on utterly different premises than those of documentary, advertising, or artistic photography. What defines the delicate relationship between photography and science? What photographs result, and how can they be interpreted?