Science and Art Photography
Science and Art Photography
May 17, 2015
Blow Up, Untitled 1, 2007, Ori Gersht
© Ori Gersht, Private Collection, courtesy of Mummery+Schnelle
From the 1840s, scientists were using photography to record things too large, too small or too fast for the human eye to see. William Henry Fox Talbot’s experiments with photomicrography, some of the earliest scientific photographs ever made, will be on show alongside striking works by contemporary artists including Trevor Paglen, Idris Khan and Clare Strand.
Iconic works on display include examples of the high speed photography produced by Berenice Abbott and Harold Edgerton at MIT, Carl Strüwe, Laure Albin-Guillot and Joris Jansen’s differing uses of photomicrography, the varied visual treatments of electrical force by Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, Man Ray and Hiroshi Sugimoto, and camera-less photography created by László Moholy-Nagy, György Kepes and Walead Beshty.
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Blow Up, Untitled 1, 2007, Ori Gersht
© Ori Gersht, Private Collection, courtesy of Mummery+Schnelle
Bullet Through Lemon, c. 1955 - Color
© Harold Edgerton, MIT, 2015, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.
Insect Wings, c. 1840, William Henry Fox Talbot
© National Media Museum, Bradford / SSPL
X Ray of Angelfish & Surgeonfish, 1896, Eduard Valenta & Josef Maria Eder
© National Media Museum, Bradford / SSPL