AgNO3 : Histories of science and photography in Sweden

Photographs today have had an impact like never before. In the unique book AgNO3, we encounter a use of photography that takes its starting point in science and research for a century and a half; here photography is used as a method, as evidence, as a scalpel, a magnifying glass, a mirror. AgNO3, which is the scientific term for silver nitrate, served as the chemical basis for photography right up to the digital age. The book AgNO3, which is linked to the famous exhibition at Landskrona museum of the same name, depicts the photograph in relation to a variety of angles: How a disease can take shape, how an explorer maps white spots, how dusty insect collections get a renaissance, how criminals should depicted for best recognition, how a housewife moves by the stove, what types of clouds there are, why parachutes do not unfold (regardless of clouds), how to portray fir trees and much more. On 239 pages, we meet killers and cloud photographers, make acquaintances with serious researchers in white coats as well as happy enthusiasts. Sometimes the scientifically interesting may have arisen only in our time. Never before has a similar photo book been produced in Sweden! Press votes about the book: »This is how" AgNO3 Histories of science and photography in Sweden "becomes equally love and criticism of the truth claims of photography and science. Rarely expressed as comprehensible or seriously entertaining. « Sydsvenskan »I myself am happy that I had time to see Landskrona Museum's AgNO3, the formula for silver nitrate, central to analog film. It is a highly interesting, historical journey through the use of science as well as the misuse of photography ... For those of you who do not have time to Landskrona before the turn of the month, all photos and texts are in a nicely designed book Devotion, yes almost obsessed efforts are behind many of the exhibition . «Birgitta Rubin, Dagens Nyheter