Professor Emeritus Kelley Wilder is currently a visiting researcher at Eikones - Center for the History and Theory of the Image. Previously she was Professor of Photographic History and Director of the Photographic History Research Centre, at De Montfort Univeristy, Leicester. She is the author of numerous books and essays including Photography and Science (Reaktion, 2009) and with Gregg Mitmann, Documenting the World: Film, Photography and the Scientific Record (Chicago, 2016). 

Recent publications include, ‘Electron Clouds and Defense Department Funding: Photography, Electricity and Materials at the MIT Laboratory for Insulation Research’, Photoresearcher 45, Special Issue: Kelley Wilder (ed.), Photography, Electricity, Infrastructure, and 'De la valeur d’une entreprise photographique,' traduction de Jean-François Caro,Transbordeur, n.10, and ‘Photography: Between Discipline and Indiscipline’ in Geraldine Johnson (ed), Art History Now: Objects, Concepts, Approaches. Her current project, 'Doing Science in the Age of Photography' investigates the way in which photography interacted with the infrastructure of modern science.

Doing Science in the Age of Photography

Photography changed the sciences materially and visually from the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, becoming an integral part of modern scientific infrastructure. This project charts the rise of applied photographic techniques as they were introduced into various sciences, examining how photographic and scientific processes informed one another, how photographic businesses interacted with scientists as consumers and researchers, and the consequences of the ebb and flow of analogue photographic methods and materials in the sciences.