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Between science and art, revisiting photography's role in discovery and experimentation. This edition of
Aperture focuses on "Curiosity." Taking its name from the Mars Rover, which has reminded us that a fundamental purpose of photography is to show us something new, the articles and portfolios ask: what can we learn by revisiting photography's role in discovery, experimentation and exploration?
The issue toggles between past and present, and between science and art, and features
Jennifer Tucker on Victorian science photography, spectacle and rational amusement;
Kelley Wilder on what it means for photography to make visible the invisible;
Brian Dillon on the cosmic and the mundane; a conversation between artist
Trevor Paglen and the eminent science historian
Peter Galison; a selection from
Harold "Doc" Edgerton's lab books;
David Campany on photographic abstraction and perception; curator
Joel Smith's guide to "photographic nothing"; and portfolios by British photographer
Stephen Gill, Amsterdam-based artist
Eva-Fiore Kovakovsky, curator
Lynne Cooke on
Horst Ademeit's mysterious annotated Polaroids and much more.