Fritz Goro

Media 175Principles of Digital Photography

Presented by Caitlin StofferahnFebruary 14, 2015

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

Photo by Fritz Goro

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

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

In 1948, Goro photographed blood circulating through a heart.

Photo by Fritz Goro

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.”

A fetus in an artificial womb, 1965

Photo by Fritz Goro

Photo by Fritz Goro

90 day old cow fetuses, 1965

Photo by Fritz Goro

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

Photo by Fritz Goro

Photo by Fritz Goro

Photo by Life Magazine

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

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Resourceswww.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/