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This illustrated book presents a pioneering collection of photographs of science subjects that raised questions about catastrophe theory, human evolution and behavior, the nature of matter, and the place of our planet in the universe.
| Size | | Length: | 256 pages | | Height: | 11.5 in | | Width: | 9.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 52.0 oz |
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Thomas, a photography curator at Canada's National Gallery, edits seven chapters devoted either to the technology of photography, beginning with the daguerreotype, or to specific subjects in which photography opened the doors to new discoveries. . . . Astronomy was such a subject, and early 1850s images of the moon and sun appear here, capped off by recent ones of Apollo in lunar orbit. Human anatomy and motion constitute one whole chapter, illustrated by the pioneering photographs of Albert Londe and Eadweard Muybridge. The book contains 150 images in all, depicting a variety of subjects: skeletons, plants, bullets, liquid droplets. This visual richness will attract students of photograph's early history in science.
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Taylor
Seven essays by six scholars discuss the way photography has changed our view of reality and our sense of beauty. . . . The 152 plates (35 in color) are well coordinated with the text. The avoidance of scientific details and the informative illustrations combine to make the range, content, and beauty of scientific photography accessible to the general reader.
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Stewart
[This] book is solidly fascinating through and through. . . . Ann Thomas is behind it: curator of the National Gallery's Photographs Collection, she's responsible for having marshalled the seven essays (two of them she wrote herself) that amount to a highly readable introduction to both the photography of science and the science of photography. Apart from that, the pictures in these pages will leave you gawping from wonderment--on the strength of them alone, its one of those books that demands you evacuate the coffee table post haste.
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Smith
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