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<div align="center"><font size=4><b><u>STS Colloquium - April
25th<br><br>
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</u></font><font size=5>Looking at Laboratories: <br>
MIT Lab Photos from the '80s<br><br>
</font> <font size=4>Scott Globus, MIT '84<br><br>
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In 1983 MIT undergraduate Scott Globus began a UROP project under the
direction of Sharon Traweek to photograph MIT laboratories and the
scientists and students who worked there. Globus shot approximately 3,000
black and white images, making his collection the most comprehensive
visual documentation of MIT laboratories in the second half of the 20th
century. The MIT Libraries displayed about sixty of these prints
when Globus graduated in June 1984 in an exhibition called: "Visual
Ethnography: Photographs of Science and Technology." Following
graduation, Globus traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area (where he still
resides) and continued to make images in academic and commercial labs in
Silicon Valley for a couple of years. For most of his career,
Globus has worked as a casting director building one of the nations
largest online talent databases. More recently, he has worked as a
production, casting, and marketing consultant for a wide range of media
clients. <br><br>
This collection of laboratory images is now the basis of two
projects. Part documentary photography, part ethnographic study,
and part creative photography, Globus is working on a book of these
images to give researchers and others interested in the history of
science and technology a glimpse of laboratory life in America. A
second project is underway by STS and the MIT Museum to create a digital
archive and database of Globus' collection for use by the faculty and
students of STS. Scott Globus will share some of these images with us at
his STS colloquium on Monday, April 25th. In this colloquium,
Globus is looking for our feedback as academics on the research,
educational, and outreach possibilities for his archive of MIT laboratory
photographs. Please join us at 4:00 Monday in E51-095.<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
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