1. Fritz Goro Media 175 Principles of Digital Photography Presented by Caitlin Stofferahn February 14, 2015

2. 1901-1986 Fritz Goro was born in Bremen, Germany. He began his career in photojournalism, and by the age of 30, he became the editor of Munich Illustrated. Goro and his wife left Germany in 1933, when Hitler came to power. After coming to America in 1936, he began working for Life Magazine. Photo by Fritz Goro, 1955

3. Photo by Fritz Goro On July 16 th, 1946, Fritz Goro photographed the first atomic bomb crater located in Alamogordo, Mexico.

4. During Goro’s career, he documented many scientific breakthroughs. He designed his own optical systems to capture pictures of things that were being seen for the first time. In 1946, he photographed a speck of the world’s first plutonium. Photo by Fritz Goro

5. In 1948, Goro photographed blood circulating through a heart. Photo by Fritz Goro

6. An octopus eating a blue crab, 1953 Photo by Fritz Goro Known as the “inventor of macrophotography”, scientific subjects were Goro’s passion. According to LIFE Magazine, Goro said that he took photos of things that “more knowledgeable photographers might have considered unphotographable.”

7. A fetus in an artificial womb, 1965 Photo by Fritz Goro

8. 90 day old cow fetuses, 1965

9. Photo by Fritz Goro “I began to take pictures of things I barely understood, using techniques I’d never used before.” Fritz Goro

10. Photo by Fritz Goro

12. Photo by Life Magazine “His photographs highlight the beautiful, strange, amusing and poignant within the realm of scientific inquiry (www.wired.com).”

13. The End Resources www.life.time.com/photographers/photographer-spotlight-fritz-goro/#1 www.amusingplanet.com/2012/08/extraordinary-science-photos-by-fritz.html/ www.wired.com/2012/07/fritz-goro-science-photos/