Event: 'Berenice Abbott Photography And Science: An Essential Unity' Print
  Greater Boston
Events taking place in the Boston area.
Date: Monday, August 13, 2012 At 10:00 am
Contact Info:
617.253.5927
Email: MUSEUMINFO@MIT.EDU

Location: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  /  MIT MUSEUM BUILDING N51   265 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE   CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139 OPEN DAILY 10AM – 5PM

 

 

Description: 

The MIT Museum opens the new Kurtz Gallery for Photography with an inaugural exhibition featuring over seventy images by Berenice Abbott taken while working at MIT.

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.

 

 

May 3, 2012-December 31, 2012