NATURE
Because photography can accurately capture detailed observations of nature close-up, it shares a symbiotic relationship with scientific exploration. Anna Atkins demonstrates this alliance between art and science at an early date in her photogram of a fern (ca. 1851-54), an image made without a camera by placing the object directly on paper exposed to light. The relationship with science finds contemporary expression in the work of Giraud Foster and Norman Barker, who photographed an ammonite fossil through an electron microscope in the 1990s.
