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Leonardo

   June 2003, Vol. 36, No. 3, Pages 201-206
   Posted Online March 13, 2006.
   (doi:10.1162/002409403321921415)
   © 2003 ISAST

   Polarization Microscopy as an Art Tool: Border Crossing between Art and
   Nature

   Manfred FriedrichBiochemist

   Strasse der Einheit 72, D-14548 Caputh, Germany. E-mail:
   <manfriedrich@web.de>. Web: <http://www.manfriedrich.de.vu>

   Manfred Friedrich is a biochemist, medical chemist and associate
   professor in nutritional physiology. He has worked since 1991 at the
   East German Academy of Sciences. He has worked with photography since
   1962 and artistic photomicrography since 1994. Since 1995, he has had
   40 exhibitions, both in Germany and abroad.

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   Until recently, polarization microscopy has been little developed as an
   art tool. It holds, however, an enormous aesthetic potential. The
   author first reviews the theoretical and technical background of
   polarization microscopy and then discusses how selected microscopic
   structures imaged via polarization microscopy can be represented
   according to the artist's individual aesthetic choices, the most
   important of which is color design by interference. The conscious
   perception of the pictures by the observer is discussed on the basis of
   our present knowledge of cognitive neurosciences. Polarization
   microscopy leads to a crossing of the boundaries between nature and the
   forms of non-representational painting.

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