Photomicrography
顕微鏡写真 / 1840s– / Technique / Photographic Genres
Scientific photography of structures too small to see. Bentley's snowflakes proved the scientific image beautiful — continued today in polarized color and fluorescence at Nikon Small World.
Structures beyond sight / Specimens on black / Polarized and fluorescent color / The wonder of symmetry
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Wilson Bentley / the color of polarized light / the Nikon Small World contest