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"Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott," which opens Aug. 31 at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, explores how the photography of Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) has been used in both artistic and scientific contexts.
Abbott's images are important in art, science, documentaries and the history of science education. Trained in New York as a sculptor, she left for Europe in 1921. In Paris, she became the Surrealist artist Man Ray's photographic assistant and saw the photographer Eugne Atget's work. In 1929, Abbott returned to New York and began a series of documentary photographs of the city and directed the "Changing New York" project for the Works Progress Administration in 1939.
By the early 1950s, Abbott was experimenting with photographs of scientific subjects, and produced images of an array of scientific processes. On display in this exhibition are photographs of magnets, parabolic mirrors, insects, soap bubbles and bones created for scientific textbooks and Science Illustrated magazine. Her images represent a unique melding of science and art, which produces an aesthetic that compels the viewer while also conveying scientific ideas.
Abbott's photographs document science, but they also demonstrate processes. Simply showing magnets or a mirror was not enough for Abbott: her images make visible processes addressed by science, such as revealing the field lines of a magnet placed in iron filings.
Her photographs are singular because of their content. While there is a long and well-researched tradition of artists' involvement with natural history, Abbott's photographs also include physics images, which can be understood as two-dimensional models of physics concepts. Abbott's photographs offer an opportunity to reflect on not only the ways that science influences art, but also how art influences science.
"For science, it is being more and more recognized that photographs such as Abbott's can impact scientists' conceptualization of the subject matter of those photographs," said co-curator Worthy Martin, associate professor of computer science and acting director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. "Computer visualizations from computational models, such as John Hawley's models of galaxy formation, are a contemporary example of this concept, in which careful image composition can help us see and understand things that are not recognized by the naked eye, or for the models, even accessible to the naked eye."
In conjunction with the exhibit, Martin and Rogers will give a Lunchtime Talk on Oct. 23, from noon to 1 p.m. Museum volunteer curator Stephen Margulies will give a Saturday Special Tour on Sept. 22, from 2 to 3 p.m. and a Lunchtime Talk on Nov. 13, noon to 1 p.m.
The papers represent a somewhat miscellaneous cross section of material touching on various aspects of life at Caltech. Of particular interest are talks about or interviews with prominent Caltech faculty. There is also interesting material on student life, as well as several sets of slides showing student pranks. Other sets of slides generated by faculty retirement dinners provide some interesting pictorial records. Researchers should also refer to the Edward Hutchings Jr. oral history.
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Edward Hutchings Jr. was born in 1912 in Brooklyn and raised in upstate New York. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1933, he worked as an editor and writer for a number of magazines, including Literary Digest,Business Week,Look,Liberty,Collier's and Science Illustrated. In 1948 he was offered the job of editor of Caltech's alumni magazine, Engineering & Science (E&S). Later he acquired the title of Director of Publications.
Over the course of his thirty-one-year tenure with E&S, Hutchings refashioned it into a publication that went well beyond the typical alumni magazine by reaching out to faculty, students, parents, trustees, donors, science teachers, the press, and the interested public. His philosophy was to make any science concept available to the layman. By his own admission he was careful to observe the old dictum of never underestimating the intelligence of his readers while never overestimating their knowledge. Bringing scientist and layman together was, he wrote, "like being the operator of a lonely-hearts club. I've tried to promote a match." He was scrupulous to involve students in his work and to cover student life in the magazine, as well as to present the important research that was continually taking place on campus and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He taught journalism classes and was advisor to the student newspaper, the California Tech. In 1958 he compiled and edited the book Frontiers of Science, a set of the best material from E&S to that time, which contains some of the most illustrious names in science of that era, from Linus Pauling to Richard Feynman to J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Hutchings also participated actively in campus life. He was a member of the Caltech Stock Company, led by English professor J. Kent Clark, which presented original shows to mark major campus events from the 1950s into the 1980s. He retired from E&S in 1979 and from teaching in 1987.
Edward Hutchings, Jr. worked as editor of Caltech's Engineering & Science magazine for thirty years and also taught journalism classes at Caltech. His collection consists of materials related to his work at Caltech, and includes interviews with prominent Caltech faculty and photos and slides related to student life.
Two sequential National Cancer Institute surveys showed that more women perceived forty years rather than fifty years to be the right age for mammography screening, despite the lack of scientific evidence for this position. News media coverage of mammography guidelines regarding women in their forties was compared with the survey perceptions. Women's understanding of forty years as the right age did not correspond to the proportion of topical news content. Qualitative interviews with eight magazine health journalists illustrated the emphasis on practical recommendations over scientific knowledge. Understanding scientific evidence would enhance health reporting to create an informed public.
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AB - Two sequential National Cancer Institute surveys showed that more women perceived forty years rather than fifty years to be the right age for mammography screening, despite the lack of scientific evidence for this position. News media coverage of mammography guidelines regarding women in their forties was compared with the survey perceptions. Women's understanding of forty years as the right age did not correspond to the proportion of topical news content. Qualitative interviews with eight magazine health journalists illustrated the emphasis on practical recommendations over scientific knowledge. Understanding scientific evidence would enhance health reporting to create an informed public.
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