Berenice Abbott
Transformation of Energy, Cambridge, Ma.

Transformation of Energy, Cambridge, Ma.

© Berenice Abbott/ Commerce Graphics

Transformation of Energy, Cambridge, Ma.
Transformation of Energy, Cambridge, Ma.
ArtistAmerican, 1898–1991
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Transformation of Energy, Cambridge, Ma.
Date1958–1961, printed later
PlaceCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 5/8 × 13 1/16 in. (24.4 × 33.1 cm)
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 13 1/16 in. (24.4 × 33.2 cm)
Mount: 16 1/16 × 20 in. (40.8 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ronald A. Kurtz
Object number93.440
Not on view

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Description

Berenice Abbott, a photographer best known for modernist street photography, also made scientific work for a different audience. In the late 1950s she was hired by the Physical Sciences Study Committee at MIT to create photographs for a new high-school physics textbook, illustrating principles of physical science such as mechanics, magnetism, electricity, and waves.


ProvenanceRonald A. Kurtz; given to MFAH, 1993.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil below lower right corner of image on mount "BERENICE ABBOTT"
verso a stamp " BERENICE ABBOTT / ABBOTT, MAINE 04406 / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED "

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