Qs week 2 – 2nd presentation – “Photography and Art of Science”

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Q: How do you think that the relationship between photography, science and technology has affected how we attribute ideas around knowledge and truth to the photographic image? Science, technology and photography are inextricably linked. Chemistry and the fixing of light led to photography’s invention, with competing methodologies. Interestingly, even as a scientific instrument (allowing us to see things we could …

Photography and …

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Coursework this week is to consider what discipline I feel photography of any kind has a particularly interesting or relevant relationship to. I would like to look at photography’s relationship to scientific and engineering research, and perhaps even more importantly, to education in general, through the work of Felice Frankel. When I first met Felice, almost 20 years ago, she was …