The Nikon Small World Exhibition: Photographs Through the Microscope
opens May 4 at Mandeville Gallery and runs through June 5. A gallery talk with contest
winner Barbara Danowski, Union professor of biology, is set for Thursday, May 14, from 4
to 6 p.m. at the Nott Memorial.
Photomicrography – the art of picture taking at a microscopic level
– reveals images of a world the naked eye cannot see. Often used as technical
documents by science or industry, photomicrographs can be keys to understanding what is
happening in the microscopic world.
But photomicrographs can be much more, as demonstrated by the works of
20 winners of the 1997 Nikon International Small World Competition. Their color,
composition, structure and content can reveal beauty on several layers of comprehension
and appreciation.
Danowski, professor of biology, took top honors with her entry showing
mouse fibroblasts magnified 160 times.