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Beauty of another order : photography in science

1997

Format:	Book
Author:	Thomas, Ann.
Title:	Beauty of another order : photography in science / Ann Thomas ; with essays by Marta Braun [and others].
Publisher, Date:	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press in association with the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ©1997.
Description:	256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Summary:	Images in scientific photographs can puzzle, startle, and inspire new thinking. This handsomely illustrated book presents a pioneering collection of photographs of science subjects. Leading experts in the history of photography and scientific photography consider these images, their technical genesis, the questions they inspire, and more. 90 color and 65 b&w illustrations.
Subjects:	Photography -- Scientific applications -- Exhibitions. Art and science. Photography -- History.
Genre:	Exhibition catalogs.
Other Author:	Braun, Marta. National Gallery of Canada.
Other Title:	Photography in science
Notes:	"Published in conjunction with the exhibition titled Photography in Science: Beauty of Another Order organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in Ottawa from Oct. 17, 1997 - Jan. 4, 1998"--Title page verso. Also issued in French under the title: Une beauté à découvrir. Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-250) and index. Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Photography in Science : Beauty of Another Order', organised by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in Ottawa from 17 October 1997 to 4 January 1998.
Contents:	Photography's illustrative ancestors: the printed image / Mimi Cazort -- Invention and discovery: first images / Larry J. Schaaf -- The signature of light: photo-sensitive materials in the nineteenth century / John P. McElhone -- The search for pattern / Ann Thomas -- 'A perfect and faithful record': mind and body in medical photography before 1900 / Martin Kemp -- The expanded present: photographing movement / Marta Braun -- Capturing light: photographing the universe / Ann Thomas.
LCCN:	97061357
ISBN:	0300073402 9780300073409 088884672X 9780888846723
Other Number:	37372476
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Control Number:	105507
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Call Number:	621.367 Thomas

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