Awards
Named a winner in the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2002 competition presented by the American Institute of Graphic Designers (AIGA)
Named Best of Show at Bookbuilders of Boston's 2003 New England Book Show also honored for Best Cover and named Best of College Books.
Finalist for the 2002 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award in the Craft, Technology & Scientific Books category
Synopses & Reviews
Named a winner in the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2002 competition presented by the American Institute of Graphic Designers (AIGA), Named Best of Show at Bookbuilders of Boston's 2003 New England Book Show—also honored for Best Cover and named Best of College Books. and Finalist for the 2002 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award in the Craft, Technology & Scientific Books category Science and engineering research must be communicated within the research community and to the general public, and a crucial element of that communication is visual. In Envisioning Science, science photographer Felice Frankel provides a guide to creating dynamic and compelling photographs for journal submissions and scientific presentations to funding agencies, investors, and the general public. The book is organized from the large to small—from photographing laboratory equipment to capturing new material and biological structures at the microscopic level. Full-color illustrations including many side-by-side comparisons provide an extensive gallery of fine science photography.
The book begins with a brief historical overview in a foreword by science educator Phylis Morrison. Frankel discusses technical issues and, just as important, her personal approach to creating images that are both scientifically informational and accessible. This is a handbook that should become a standard tool in all research laboratories.
Review
"Part of my fun job is to seek out the very best pictures possible, the amazingly cool ones conveying information and promoting new understandings. These images get integrated into designs for new exhibitions that millions of people see every year. 'Honest' pictures are hard to come by and my fondest hope is that scientists will get a hold of Felice Frankel's outstanding book and will use it to make my professional life easier! This amazing guide empowers users by translating Frankel's intuitive art into clear pathways for producing great photos about science and technology." Barry Aprison, Director of Science and Technology, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
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"Felice Frankel has produced a remarkable book about marrying pictorial art with science and engineering. The figures are a delight to the eye and stimulation to the brain. What's more, she explains how you can create your own." Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor and Director of the McGovern Institute, MIT, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1993)
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"There's no way to describe this book other than as a true teacher's gift a master photographer of the art of science teaches her craft, with patience, graphic detail, and feeling to all of us who need to visualize and represent this world." Roald Hoffmann, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Cornell University, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1981)
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"Most people think of science as abstract and numerical. In fact, science is a surprisingly visual endeavor: both data and theory are often driven by pictures and images. Felice Frankel's work conveys the tremendous beauty and excitement of science letting the layperson share in the wonder of studying the natural world." Eric S. Lander, Director, Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research; Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; and Professor of Biology, MIT
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"In the beginning were the image and the eye. Then man-the-scientist became enamored of the word and neglectful of the image. Now the small group of those who fight back welcomes Felice Frankel as a marvelous addition, both as skillful performer and as experienced and patient teacher. Her book is priceless." Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University
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"Felice Frankel is a skilled photographer with the eye of an artist and the mind of a scientist. Envisioning Science is a splendid book, full of breathtaking images and instructions for how we mere mortals might produce similar ones." David Goodstein, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor, California Institute of Technology
Synopsis
Science and engineering research must be communicated within the research community and to the general public, and a crucial element of that communication is visual. In
Envisioning Science, science photographer Felice Frankel provides a guide to creating dynamic and compelling photographs for journal submissions and for scientific presentations to funding agencies, investors, and the general public. The book is organized from the large to the small, from pictures of new material and biological structures made with a camera and lens, to images made with a stereomicroscope, compound microscope, and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The text explains how to design, craft, and execute effective images, SEMs, and diagrams while maintaining scientific integrity. Full-color illustrations, including many instructional side-by-side comparisons, provide examples from the physical and biological sciences, biotechnology, nanotechnology, electrical engineering, materials science, and mechanical engineering to encourage a new way to see and create images of science.
After a brief historical overview by science educator Phylis Morrison, Frankel discusses technical issues and, just as important, her personal approach to creating images that are both scientifically informational and accessible. This is a handbook that should become a standard tool in all research laboratories.
Synopsis
A complete guide to the creation of compelling science photographs.
Synopsis
andlt;Pandgt;Science and engineering research must be communicated within the research community and to the general public, and a crucial element of that communication is visual. In Envisioning Science, science photographer Felice Frankel provides a guide to creating dynamic and compelling photographs for journal submissions and scientific presentations to funding agencies, investors, and the general public. The book is organized from the large to small -- from photographing laboratory equipment to capturing new material and biological structures at the microscopic level. Full-color illustrations including many side-by-side comparisons provide an extensive gallery of fine science photography.The book begins with a brief historical overview in a foreword by science educator Phylis Morrison. Frankel discusses technical issues and, just as important, her personal approach to creating images that are both scientifically informational and accessible. This is a handbook that should become a standard tool in all research laboratories.andlt;/Pandgt;
About the Author
Science photographer Felice Frankel is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Working in collaboration with scientists, Frankel creates images for journal submissions, presentations and publications for general audiences. Her most extensive collaboration, On the Surface of Things, Images of the Extraordinary in Science, with George M. Whitesides, is now in its second printing.
Frankel has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sloan Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. She was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design for her previous work photographing the built landscape and architecture. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Her work has appeared on the covers and inside pages of Nature, Science, Wired, Newsweek, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, New Scientist and was profiled in the New York Times, Life Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and the Christian Science Monitor. She has exhibited along the Champs Elysées. at the Musee de L'Elysee, Lausanne Switzerland, the National Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Science and the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, among others. Her exhibition, Envisioning Science, is currently traveling the United States and Europe.