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June 29, 2017May 29, 2017

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison

The rise of the objective image polarized the visual space of art and science, just as the role of the two domains split over the r...

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June 26, 2017May 29, 2017

Kelley Wilder

One of the first questions to ask is ‘What makes the evidence reliable?’ If your evidence consists of a photograph, then the questi...

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June 22, 2017May 29, 2017

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...

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June 19, 2017May 29, 2017

Jennifer Tucker

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

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June 15, 2017May 29, 2017

Berenice Abbott

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

 

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June 12, 2017May 29, 2017

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 ...

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June 8, 2017May 29, 2017

Adam Gopnik

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

 

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June 5, 2017May 29, 2017

Albert Einstein

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

 

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June 1, 2017May 29, 2017

Kelley Wilder

The sensational nature of the reception of x-rays can hardly be overstated. It was as if photography had been born again, more powe...

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May 29, 2017

Jennifer Tucker

Although their circulation was smaller than that of other types of photographs (portraits, for example), scientific pictures had a ...

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