About

LightBox on Tumblr is a window into the lens of LightBox, a blog by TIME’s photo department that explores how photography, video and the culture of images define today’s world.

Additional pages

Site authors

amylombard

Amy Lombard

lightboxadmin

Untitled

simonfung

Simon Fung

timeadmin

Untitled

auddevtime

Untitled

timeinternfall2011

Untitled

Find me on...

artstech:

Science used to create photographic art. 

Berenice Abbott, Photography and Science: An Essential Unity is the inaugural exhibition for the MIT Museum’s new Kurtz Gallery for Photography. It will run through Dec. 31, 2012.

About the exhibit:

Renowned for her early to mid-century photography in Paris and New York, Abbott also spent time at MIT during the late 1950’s when she was hired to create new photographic images for the teaching of physics.

Berenice Abbott spent two years at MIT creating photographs that memorably document the principles of physical science - mechanics, electromagnetism, and waves. She often developed innovative techniques for capturing scientific phenomena, including one for very detailed, close-in photography that she called Super Sight.

Abbott was a collaborative artist who used the potent force of her imagination to illustrate, and to inspire scientists, whom she viewed as fellow creators, grounded in reality, but ready to make leaps of discovery.

Source thefinchandpea.com

Notes

  1. reblogcoreyb reblogged this from staceythinx
  2. ladymycroft reblogged this from artstech and added:
    Science used to create photographic art.
  3. lorenzens-soil reblogged this from staceythinx
  4. pandullum reblogged this from gogogadgetboy
  5. schoenermann reblogged this from timelightbox
  6. rageagainstworld reblogged this from artstech and added:
    Berenice Abbott, Photography and Science: An Essential Unity is the inaugural exhibition for the MIT Museum’s new Kurtz...
  7. jeilosophy reblogged this from talikira
  8. kuhara reblogged this from porike617
  9. porike617 reblogged this from kourahiiki-no-ahou
  10. braiiinsick reblogged this from timelightbox
  11. theunimportant-things reblogged this from loveamongruin
  12. wolffeeder reblogged this from abhorticulture
  13. abhorticulture reblogged this from brain-rain
  14. brain-rain reblogged this from staceythinx
  15. edcw reblogged this from timelightbox
  16. kamerenboun reblogged this from timelightbox
  17. mgenka reblogged this from timelightbox
  18. byerseve reblogged this from eve-byers
  19. smilesandeunoia reblogged this from ssaint
  20. ssaint reblogged this from st
  21. st reblogged this from artstech

Loading posts...