Don't Forget Our May Meeting with Norman Barker - scientific macrophotographer par excellence

Don't Forget Our May 28 Meeting with Norman Barker - scientific macrophotographer par excellence Norm Barker, who is an expert of international renown.in the for-us arcane area of medical photography. Norm Barker MS, MA, RBP is an associate professor of Pathology and Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine. He is Director of Pathology Photography and Graphics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. A graduate of The Maryland Institute College of Art, he also holds a M.S. from Johns Hopkins University in education as well as a M.A. from The University of Baltimore in publications design. He specializes in photomicroscopy and macro photography. He is a fellow of the Biocommunications Association and his work appears in textbooks, journals and museums worldwide. His photographs are in the permanent collections of more than forty museums including The Smithsonian, The George Eastman House, The American Museum of Natural History, The Nelson-Atkins Museum and The Science Museum in London. He has published 6 books and numerous scientific articles. His new book collaboration “Hidden Beauty: Exploring The Aesthetics of Medical Science” shows the beauty of medicine and the human body and will be going on a museum tour in 2014-2018, the first stop, The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. Here is a link to some of his work, Ancient Microworlds.