About X-Ray Crystallography
X-Ray Crystallography distills the visual language of fiber-diffraction photography — the genre of Photo 51, the 1952 exposure by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling that revealed the helical structure of DNA. Luminous white-grey reflections sit on a near-black exposed plate, arranged in the diagonal X-cross of a helix.
It is a monochrome, measured aesthetic: symmetric spot lattices, layer-line spacing, period scientific-journal serifs, and a single restrained schematic blue. Quiet, precise, and weighty as a developed photographic film.
- Origin
- King's College London, United Kingdom
- Era
- 1950–1990 (Photo 51 taken 1952; mid-century structural biology)
- Key figures
- Rosalind Franklin · Raymond Gosling · Maurice Wilkins · James Watson · Francis Crick
- Movements
- X-ray crystallography · Mid-century scientific publishing illustration
X-Ray Crystallography design spec
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