Lot Essay
Plates include: Cycloid; Magnetic Field; Swinging Ball; Multiple Flash Photograph; Spinning Wrench; Pendulum Swing; Soap Bubbles; Path of a Moving Ball; Water Pattern; Beams of Light Through Glass; Collision of Two Balls and Magnetic Field.
Abbott's science pictures have recently been highlighted in an exhibition "Berenice Abbott: Science Photographs" at the New York Public Library and reviewed in The New York Times article by Vicki Goldberg "The Servants of Both Science and Beauty" (November 5, 1999) and in "Viewing Science Through Pictures" (The Science Times, December 21, 1999.)
For another work by this artist please see lot 172.
Abbott's science pictures have recently been highlighted in an exhibition "Berenice Abbott: Science Photographs" at the New York Public Library and reviewed in The New York Times article by Vicki Goldberg "The Servants of Both Science and Beauty" (November 5, 1999) and in "Viewing Science Through Pictures" (The Science Times, December 21, 1999.)
For another work by this artist please see lot 172.