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________________________________________ From: Diatrope Art/Sci [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:43 PM To: Saul Ostrow Subject: [diatrope] Article: SFMOMA show sees art in science Art review: SFMOMA show sees art in science Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic Thursday, December 11, 2008 Should we consider "Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900" an art exhibition just because the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has organized it? It surveys photography's extension of human visual capacities, primarily in the hands of scientists, and it presents us with some pictorially striking images. But artistic intent figured in few, if any, of them. Yet if we believe that art, photographic or otherwise, proves itself by somehow enhancing unaided vision, then the case for at least the tangency of some of these items to artwork becomes clearer, for the show tracks the amplification of ordinary vision through optical instruments, X-rays and refinements of photochemistry. Full article and images: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/10/DDIL14KDP8.DTL ________________________________________________________________ This message was from the Diatrope Art & Science discussion. For information, archives, or to subscribe, please see http://webexhibits.org/about/diatrope.html You are subscribed as [email protected]. Send postings to: [email protected] This discussion is moderated. To unsubscribe, please send a blank email to: [email protected]
