At a photography convention in 1859, Charles Baudelaire famously said "Let [photography] rescue from oblivion those tumbling ruins, those books, prints and manuscripts which time is devouring, precious things whose form is dissolving and which demand a place in the archives of our memory - it will be thanked and applauded.But if it is allowed to encroach upon the domain of the... imaginary, upon anything whose value depends solely upon the addition of something of a man's soul, then it will be so much the worse for us."
Although Baudelaire did not approve of photography as a whole, I believe he would have approved of this image:
This is simply a photographic image of a kidney viewed under a microscope. I think that Baudelaire would definitely approve of this image because he was all for photography used as an aid for science rather than photography being used as a form of art.
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