ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF Art as Applied to Medicine.

Norm is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine. He specializes in photomicroscopy, macro and natural science photography. Norm is Director of Pathology Photography and Graphic Arts Labratory. He is a Registered Biological Photographer and a Fellow of the Biocommunications Association and his work appears in textbooks, journals and museums worldwide. Norm's work lies between the interface of art and science. His work is in the permanent collections of more than forty museums including The Smithsonian, The George Eastman House, The American Museum of Natural History and The Science Museum in London.

:: education

Masters of Art, MA The University of Baltimore, Yale Gordon School of Liberal Arts Publications Design, 2005

Masters of Science, MS Johns Hopkins University, School of Continuing Studies Adult and Continuing Education, 1985

Bachelor of Fine Art, BFA Maryland Institute College of Art Cum Laude, Photography, 1981

:: PROFESSIONAL certification

Certificate of Training in Biomedical Photography Pathology Photography, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 1983

Registered Biological Photographer, (R.B.P.) Board Certification Biological Photographic Association, 1985

Elected Fellow, (F.B.P.A) of the Biological Photographic Association for Distinguished Craftmanship and Meritorious Contributions to the Advancement Photography in the Biological Sciences, 1994

:: PROFESSIONAL experience

Senior Medical Photographer
The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 1983 - 1986

Assistant Director, Pathology Photography and Graphics
The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 1986 - 2000

Acting Director, Pathology Photography and Graphics
The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 2000 - 2001

Director, Pathology Photography and Graphics
The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 2001-Present

Instructor of Pathology and Art as Applied to Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 1990-1995

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Art as Applied to Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 1995-2004

Associate Professor of Pathology and Art as Applied to Medicine The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 2004-Present

:: recognition

Biological Photographic Assoc., Salon awards at Chapter and International Level

American Society of Clinical Pathologists, Membranous Glomerulonephritis x240 Excellence in Photomicrography, 1988

Biological Photographic Assoc., BioImage Salon, Heart Worm in Canine Blood, x450 Honorable Mention, Print Series, St Louis MO. 1989

Biological Photographic Assoc., BioImage Salon, Dinosaur Bone x60, Charles Foster Memorial Citation for Excellence in Photomicrography, Tampa, FL, 1991

Biological Photographic Assoc., Silver Medal for Best Oral Paper, "Documenting the Fossil Record" Tampa, FL, 1991

Biological Photographic Assoc., BioImage Salon, Nautilus, Aronauta argo, Second Award, Specimen Colr Print, Tarsi of a Predacious Diving Beetle x40, Second Award, Baltimore, OR. 1992

Biological Photographic Assoc., H. Lou Gibson Best Journal Paper Award "Photographing The Osprey in The Chesapeake Bay Region" Stamford, CT. 1993

Biological Photographic Assoc., BioImage Salon, Dinosaur Bone-Medullary Canal x200, Second Award, Nymphalis antiopia eggs x60, Honorable Mention, Stamford, CT 1993

Nikon International Small World Competition,1987 Honorable Mention,1988, Honorable Men- tion, 1989,10th Place, 1990, 12th place, 1991, 15th Place, 1992, Honarable Mention, 1993 5th Place1994, 20th Place, 1997, Two Honorable Mention, 1998, 12th Place, 2000, Image of Distinction 2009, Image of Distinction 2010. All images published in the Nikon Calendar.

Biological Photographic Assoc., received grant from the Endowment Fund for Education to study digital imaging at the Center for Creative Imaging, Camden, ME, March, 1994

World Congress on Biomedical Communications, Media Expo, Fine Art, Eve, Award of Excellence, Orlando, FL, 1994

Biological Photographic Assoc., BioImage Salon, Pointsettia Leaf x20, Award of Excellence and The CanadianFounders Natural Science Award, Reno, NV, 1997

BioCommunications Assoc., BioImage Salon, Mice, Award of Excellence and Stromatolite Fossil Cyanobacteria x40, Award of Excellence, Department Identity Brochure, Award of Excellence and The Charles Foster Memorial Citation, for Excellence in Photomicrography, Baltimore, ME, 1998

BioCommunications Assoc., BioImage Salon, Cenocerus pseulineatus, Award of Excellence and The B.C.A. Medical Education Award, Dallas, TX, 2001

BioCommunications Assoc., BioImage Salon, Ostera virginica, Award of Excellence and The Canadian Founders Natural Science Award, Las Vegas, NV, 2003

BioCommunications Assoc., BioImage Salon, Sea Mosses Poster, Award of Excellence for Graphic Poster Design and Best of Show, Baltimore, OR, 2005

BioCommunications Assoc., BioImage Salon, Araucaria mirabilis, Fossil Pine Cone, Award of Excellence and Favosites sp., Red Sponge Coral, The Charles Foster Memorial Citation, for Excellence in Photomicrography, Two Citations of Merit, Tucson, AZ, 2007

BioCommunications Assoc., received grant from the Endowment Fund for Education to complete and frame an exhibit, Tucson, AZ, 2007

BioCommunications Assoc., BioImage Salon, Two Citations of Merit, Award of Excellence and The Charles Foster Memorial Citation, for Excellence in Photomicrography Rochester, NY, 2008

BioCommunications Assoc., 2008 Louis Schmidt Award, Given for outstanding contributions to the progress of communications in the life sciences. Rochester, NY, 2008

:: PROFESSIONAL activities & publications

Professional Societies:

• BioCommunications Association
• Society for Photographic Education
• American Society of Media Photographers
• Association of BioCommunications Directors
• National Association of Photoshop Professionals

Photographs in Museum Permanent Collections:

• The University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Miami Museum of Science, Miami Florida
• University of Maryland University College Adelphi, Maryland
• The American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York
• New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
• University Art Museum, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
• Creative Photographic Art Center of Maine, Lewiston, Maine
• Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
• Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
• The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Syracuse University Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
• Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
• The Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, Montana
• Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York
• Museum fur Naturkunde, Cheminitz, Germany
• National Museum (Narodoni) Prague, Czech Republic
• The National Science Museum, London, England
• Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Florida
• Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
• The Smithsonian Institution (National Museum of Natural History) Washington, DC
• Center for Photography as an Art Form, Delhi, India
• Museum of Birbal Sahini Institute of Paleobotany, Lucknow, India
• The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
• "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History, Bucharest, Romania
• McMullin Museum of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
• Nelson Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
• Colorado Photographic Art Center, Denver, Colorado
• George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY
• The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas
• The Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
• The Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina
• The Australian Museum, Sydney Australia
• Johns Hopkins Medicine, Permanent Art Collection at the Hackerman-Patz Patient and Family Pavilion of The Kimmel Cancer Center

Selected Publications:

Foster, G., Barker, N.J., Ancient Microworlds, Custom & Limited Editions, San Francisco, October 2000. A large format color monograph combining art, and science to bring out the beauty as well as describe the morphology of fossils using techniques of high magnification photography. Along with the book the images are on a tour of Museums throughout the United States and Europe for the next five years.

Barker, N.J., Gross Specimen Photography, (Chapter), In: W.H. Westra, R.H. Hruban, T.H. Phelps and C. Isacson, Illustrated Manual for the Dissection of Surgical Pathology Specimens, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1995: 22-27

Barker, N.J., Foster, G., Seaweeds: Wonders of The Ocean Realm, Man & Lion Press Book and Photographic Exhibit at The Charleston Museum, Charleston, S. C., November, 2006

Giraud Foster, Regine Schultz editors, Faces of Ancient Arabia: The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art", Man & Lion Press and The Walters Art Museum, August 2008

Foster, G., Barker, N.J., Suggestions for Photographing Jewelry, Journal of Gemology, Vol. 22, No. 5, 1991: 287-291

Barker, N.J., Merrit, D., Photographing the Osprey in the Chesapeake Bay Region, Journal of Biological Photography, Vol. 60, No. 2, 63-70, April 1992

Barker, N.J., "Front Cover" The Journal of Biological Photography, Vol. 60, No. 2, April 1992

Foster, G., Barker, N.J., Photographing Small Archaeological Objects in Color, Cover and Article, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 23, No. 3, 1996: 369-375

Barker, N.J., Zahurak, M., Olson, J.L., Nadasdy, T., Racusen L.C., Hruban, R.H., Digital Imaging of Black and White Photomicrographs: Impact of File Size, American Journal of Surgical Pathology, Vol. 22, No. 2 November 1998: 1411-1416. This was one of the first studies to show the importance of file size in the publishing of black & white digital photomicrographs.

Barker, N.J., Foster, G., Ancient Microworlds, Showcase, The Journal of BioCommunication, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2007, www.jbiocommunication.org

Torbenson, M., Barker, N.J., Selling the Cure: Images of Health and Disease in Early American Patent Medicine Advertisements, The Journal of BioCommunication, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2007

Barker, N.J., "Gallery" The Journal of BioCommunication, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2008 www.jbiocommunication.org

Peres, M., Davidhazy A. editors, Images from Science 2: An Exhibition of Scientific Photography, Organized by Rochester Institute of Photography, RIT Carey Graphic Arts Press September 2008, 4-5

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, Medical College of Georgia and University of Toronto Student Exchange, "The Camera as a Tool: Natural Science Photography", April 2004

Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration, Brighton, England, "Noritsu Mini Lab in a Hospital Environment" September 2004

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Research Retreat, Poster Session "Imaging and Graphics at Pathology Photography", Johns Hopkins Hospital,Turner Auditorium, Baltimore, MD, April 2005

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Grand Rounds, "Standardization in Patient Photography for Publication and Presentation", Johns Hopkins Hospital, October 2000

The Maryland Institute College of Art, "Digital Imaging in Scientific Research", February 2006

University of Utah, Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, UT "Ancient Microworlds: Photography in Paleontology", September 2006

Mid-Atlantic BioCommunicators, "Seaweeds and Early Photography: The Connection", Fredrick, MD, November 2006

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, Student exchange with Medical College of Georgia and Univ. of Toronto. "The Cyanotype Process", April 2007

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Research Retreat, Poster Session "Imaging and Graphics at Pathology Photography", Johns Hopkins Hospital,Turner Auditorium, Baltimore, MD, May, 2007

BioCommunications Assoc., Tucson, AZ, "Historical Techniques in Early Photography", July 2007

The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. "Travel as Influence and Inspiration", March 2008

The Johns Hopkins University, Near Eastern Studies Department, Archeological Photography for Dr. Betsy Bryan,The JHU Mut Temple Foundation Project, Luxor, Egypt, January 01, 2008 February 1, 2008: Published @ www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/2007/index2007.html

Tidewater Camera Club, Easton Maryland, "Using High Magnification Photography", October 2008

Baltimore Camera Club, Baltimore, Maryland, "Early Photographic History", November 2008

BioCommunications Assoc., "Show us your Stuff, Archtichual Photography at The George Peabody Library", Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2009

Institute of Medical Illustrators, "The Early History of Photography and its Applications in the Sciences" Cumbernauld Scotland, September 2009

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