Envisioning Science - The Design And Craft Of The Science Image - Frankel Felice

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Résumé :
Science and engineering research must be communicated within the research community and to the general public, and a crucial element of that communication is visual. In Envisioning Science, science photographer Felice Frankel provides a guide to creating dynamic and compelling photographs for journal submissions and for scientific presentations to funding agencies, investors, and the general public. The book is organized from the large to the small, from pictures of new material and biological structures made with a camera and lens, to images made with a stereomicroscope, compound microscope, and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The text explains how to design, craft, and execute effective images, SEMs, and diagrams while maintaining scientific integrity. Full-color illustrations, including many instructional side-by-side comparisons, provide examples from the physical and biological sciences, biotechnology, nanotechnology, electrical engineering, materials science, and mechanical engineering to encourage a new way to see and create images of science. After a brief historical overview by science educator Phylis Morrison, Frankel discusses technical issues and, just as important, her personal approach to creating images that are both scientifically informational and accessible. This is a handbook that should become a standard tool in all research laboratories.

Biographie:
Felice Frankel is Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is coauthor with George M. Whitesides of On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science. Her photographs, taken in collaboration with researchers, have appeared on the covers and pages of numerous publications, including Nature, Science, Journal of Physical Chemistry, and Cellular Biology. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Sommaire:
["Envisioning science","How to use this book","Images in science: a gallery of the past","Basics of picture making","Photographing small things","Photographing through a stereomicroscope","Photographing through a compound microscope","Presenting your pictures"]