Seeing Science – Photography, Science and Visual Culture

Umbrico_Everyones Photos Any License_Press images 4inx9in_300dpi

Mini Exhibitions

Penelope Umbrico: Everyone’s Photos Any License

HONDA_ASIMO

Picturing Science

Robots

A Thomas Smillie cyanotypes of specimens on exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution, 1890. Courtesy: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Short Essays

P. H. Emerson: from the Introduction to “Naturalistic Photography for Students of the Art”

6.22.17 BORIS THE COSMONAUT SHOWS OFF SPACESUIT

Why We Look

Vincent Fournier’s Best Photograph: Boris The Cosmonaut Shows Off His Spacesuit

The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Timeline Items

1990

Quotes

Lester Cooke

When a launch takes place at Cape Canaveral, Florida, more than 200 cameras record every split second of the activity. Every nut, b...

6.19.17 PREYING MANITS DEVOURS HUMMINGBIRD

Why We Look

Praying Mantis Devours Hummingbird in Shocking Photo

Quotes

Jennifer Tucker

By the early 1880s, astronomical photographs were circulating among scientific friends and societies, and there was increasing pres...

6.15.17 super seeing shows photosynthesis

Why We Look

Using Super Seeing To See Photosynthesis

Quotes

Berenice Abbott

There is an essential unity between photography, science’s child, and science, the parent.

6.12.17 digital imaging less breast cancer surgery

Why We Look

Digital Imaging and AI Mean Fewer Surgeries for Breast Cancer Patients

Quotes

Jon Lomberg

Ninety-nine percent of the people who see [photos of space] have no idea what these things are, but it doesn’t matter because they ...

Quotes

Adam Gopnik

What makes science science?…. We gaze, the scientists see; we gawk, they gaze. We guess; they know.