Berenice Abbott
Parabolic Mirror, Cambridge, MA.

Parabolic Mirror, Cambridge, MA.

© Berenice Abbott/ Commerce Graphics

Parabolic Mirror, Cambridge, MA.
Parabolic Mirror, Cambridge, MA.
ArtistAmerican, 1898–1991
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Parabolic Mirror, Cambridge, MA.
Date1958-1961
PlaceCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 19 3/8 × 15 1/4 in. (49.2 × 38.7 cm)
Sheet: 19 3/8 × 15 1/4 in. (49.2 × 38.7 cm)
Mount: 30 1/8 × 24 in. (76.5 × 61 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 1998
Object number98.583
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance[Commerce Graphics LTD, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: The photograph is stamped in black on the verso of the mount: "Photograph by Berenice Abbott / (copyright symbol) Commerce Graphics Ltd, Inc. / East Rutherford, NJ 07073 / All Rights Reserved". The photograph is inscribed in pencil, verso of mount, lower left: "SCIP 17.16" and in lower right: "TAW".
The photograph is signed in pencil beneath the lower right of the image: "Berenice Abbott".

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