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.
Author(s): Marvin Heiferman
224 Pages
Photography, Subjects & Themes

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About the Book

Photography's critical role in science explained
Subjects range from facial recognition to outer space
For everyone curious about the impact of photography on our lives

Book Synopsis

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. Our understanding of outer space depends on images sent to Earth from the Hubble Space Telescope, just as our understanding of our own bodies depends on X-rays. Images make visible what lies beyond human perception.
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, using 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. Together they engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our knowledge is formed and transformed through our interactions with photographic imagery.

Review Quotes

"Science is such a cornucopia that a book of visuals on its history could take up thousands of pages. Such is curator Marvin Heiferman's prowess, however, that Seeing Science somehow covers everything in just 224. Heiferman takes us from ornithology, astronomy and genomics to ecology, chemistry and physics, on a dizzying tour of disciplines through lenses of the likes of Felice Frankel, James Balog, Rosalind Franklin and David Doubilet." --Nature

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 10.0 Inches (H) x 8.6 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)

Weight: 2.1 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 224

Genre: Photography

Sub-Genre: Subjects & Themes

Publisher: Aperture

Theme: Historical

Format: Hardcover

Author: Marvin Heiferman

Language: English

Street Date: May 29, 2019

TCIN: 82936202

UPC: 9781597114479

Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-8403

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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