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this meaty treatise addresses the roots of empiricism and reliability, as well as the minutiae of chemical processes harnessed to the scientific cause and the descendants of the photograph electron micrographs, radiographs, satellite images, among others. Seed magazine Wilder's book is a thought-provoking journey into the most exciting and less known aspects of the history of photography and its most recent applications. Her persuasive line of argumentation discloses an original perspective on this form of representation and reveals that photography's strengths lie mainly in what were once considered as its insoluble contradictions. Photography and Science stands as an informed, elegantly illustrated and vividly argued study of two fields which are only rarely examined in conjunction, and as such it will captivate scientists, artists, historians and philosophers alike. Metapsychology

this meaty treatise addresses the roots of empiricism and reliability, as well as the minutiae of chemical processes harnessed to the scientific cause and the descendants of the photograph - electron micrographs, radiographs, satellite images, among others. * <i>Seed magazine</i> * Photography and science have a rich and common history with many familiar stories and others yet to be told. In Photography and Science, Kelley Wilder has added a fresh story, one built on scholarship that adds new and meaningful insight into the ever-evolving relationship between photography and science. Visual ResourcesWilders book is a thought-provoking journey into the most exciting and less known aspects of the history of photography and its most recent applications. Her persuasive line of argumentation discloses an original perspective on this form of representation and reveals that photographys strengths lie mainly in what were once considered as its insoluble contradictions. Photography and Science stands as an informed, elegantly illustrated and vividly argued study of two fields which are only rarely examined in conjunction, and as such it will captivate scientists, artists, historians and philosophers alike. * <i>Metapsychology</i> * Wilder insightfully stresses that photography is a method of doing science (as opposed to merely illustrating it), as much as it is a way of doing art. This book is easy to read and well-illustrated with eighty photographs. These illustrations are pertinent and well reproduced. * <i>Mammalia</i> *

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Kelley Wilder is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Imaging and Communication Design, De Montfort University, Leicester, where she heads the MA in Photographic History and Practice. She has published widely in the fields of science, art and photography.

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