Andrew Paul Leonard: Capturing the Cover of Time Magazine

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If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then microscopic photographer Andrew Paul Leonard might have a lot to explain. After all, touting the aesthetic merits of an eosinophil (picture that let alone pronounce it) hardly brings to mind the rugged splendor of Ansel Adam's “El Capitan” or the quirky languidness of Richard Avedon's “Dovima with Elephants.” Yet, one look at these starkly detailed images reveals a textured, beautiful world reminiscent of the fancy of Yellow Submarine and the graphic logic of M.C.Escher.