In recent years, scientists producing photographs with technologically sophisticated microscopes have fascinated the public with introductions to astonishing miniature worlds. Beyond popular appeal, the affirmation of these images in aesthetic terms is the subject of this exhibition, focusing on the vision of the individual photographer who sees micro-objects with an artistic eye. Each has been selected for their aesthetic contribution which has in some instances particular associations with such traditional art forms as portraits, still life, and abstraction. Of these 60 photographs, a variety of minute substances achieve monumental distinction in both color and black and white. Insects, moon rocks, aviation metals, meteorites – as well as materials encountered everyday like dust and sugar – are transforms by this intimate view. What might appear to be birch trees in a bed of leaves is a surprise to the viewer who discovers it is human hair. Minute substances used in oil well drilling used to “pro” up crevices in the substrata (proppants) appear as huge rocks. The exhibition, organized by Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, has been on tour to college and regional museums and is supported in part by the Microscopy Society of American and university grants.   Moth Fly (Family pshchodicicae). David Scharf. Scanning electron microscope, magnification: 1,250x, silver print. 1977. Collection of D. Scharf.