Microscopy

tiny worlds/big impacts

Flusser’s 1983 Towards a Philosophy of Photography

He was writing about the shifting of photography. There are a lot of different photographs, and different photographs have different intentions. Fine art, medical, propaganda, and of course the most influential image-production machine is advertisement. This transformation, let’s say, of the scientific photography into the art world, or advertising photography into politics (as seen in the last U.S. election)—this modification of images from one intention to another brings about interferences. The image, and the meaning of the image, changes.
http://monoskop.org/images/c/c4/Flusser_Vilem_Towards_a_Philosophy_of_Photography.pdf

Tiny worlds

https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_greenberg_the_beautiful_nano_details_of_our_world?language=en&utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=talk&utm_term=science

- visit 1: Feb 23 5PM to 7:50PM

Basic introduction to the field of microscopy and gear with preliminary tests of student materials

- visit 2: March 1 5PM to 7:50PM

Intense work sessions on the stereo, atomic force and other microscopy gear for short studies

- visit 3: 2 hours sessions to be scheduled independently Extended work for those students interested in developing more in-depth work

Inside

recommended by Pryshchep, Sergey pryshs@rpi.edu

1. light microscopy (Phase contrast imaging)

https://www.microscopyu.com/articles/phasecontrast/phasemicroscopy.html

2. Fluorescence microscopy