Photography and Science
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144 pages
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20 color plates, 60 halftones
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7 1/2 x 8 2/3
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
One: Photography and Observation
Two: Photography and Experiment
Three: Photography and the Archive
Four: Art and the Scientific Photograph
Glossary
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo acknowledgements
Index
Review Quotes
Seed Magazine
"The misty forms recorded on the first daguerreotype plate heralded a new age in scientific observation, an age in which objectivity trumped theory, says Kelley Wilder in Photography and Science. . . .The essays, which read like fireside chats with a wise old scholar, include renderings of substances as simple as air and as complex as the coat of the poliovirus."
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