MARTIN KARPLUS - LA COULEUR DES ANNÉES 1950

Bilingual edition: French + English

22 x 24 cm / 104 pages / May 2013

Texts: Sylvie Aubenas, Jean-Pierre Changeux and Nathalie Boulouch

isbn: 978-2-321357-143-5

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Martin Karplus (born in Vienna in 1930, living in the United States since 1938), a world renowned scientist known for his pioneering work on the chemical theory of nuclear magnetic resonance, was also an active photographer working with color between 1954 and1965. Studying at Oxford under a grant from the National Science Foundation, he was able to travel throughout Europe with his Leica IIIC. During this break from science, he took many photographs using the very first Kodachrome slide film. After his 3-year period of study in Europe, he continued to take images in the United States, South America and Asia. The approximately hundred images selected from the thousands he took in just a few years convey the deeply humanist and questioning gaze of an outstanding scientist.