Artists interested in measuring nature and discovering technology:

 

Berenice Abbott
Harold E. Edgerton
William Henry Jackson
Eadweard Muybridge

With the Age of Reason,
Science became the only legitimate road to
true understanding.
The method of collecting and displaying organizing principles
became obsolete and trivial.
The scientific method was developed to test data and conclude useful information.
Both methods use nature as the model for learning.
But to understand the nature of things, one must questions all assumptions.
Though the scientific method has been institutionalized,
there is no promise of the accuracy of interpretation.

Photography has often been used as a scientific strategy for providing proof.
Through Art, we have learned that photography is fiction.
Even documentary is slanted.
So the assumption that there is some truth to be revealed from a photograph
is as questionable as the method that claims to purify data.

What have we learned from the systematic approaches of these visionaries?