When researching Micrography I came across Russian-American photographer Roman Vishniac, he was best known for capturing the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the holocaust. The work I was interested however, was his heavily visited work on photomicroscopy and cinemicroscopy. Vishniac specialized in photographing live insects and had a talent for arranging the moving specimens into just the right pose. In his lab he created photographs and motion pictures of living things which would be too small for us to see with the naked eye.I watched a Youtube video showing the work of Vishniac and also the more modern work of Wim Van Egmond, the video demonstrates their work and compares the detail displayed within the 1897 born work of Vishniac and today's version of the same thing.
I prefer the look of the bad quality image on the left as opposed to the crisp detailed capture on the right when looking at these images in an artistic manner because I enjoy the ambiguity, it creates a magical feel which I often pose a strong like to within photography as I frequently believe that capturing something obvious and easily recognisable/always seen by people can be pointless sometimes as preserving something that that will always be there and can be seen by anyone doesn't have s special quality to it where as an image that makes you wonder or an image that doesn't hold obvious meaning or content has a secret, exciting quality that is only present whilst the viewer is looking at that particular image.
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