{"id":12169,"date":"2014-09-23T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T09:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=12169"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:58:43","slug":"berenice-abbott-documenting-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/berenice-abbott-documenting-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Berenice Abbott &#8211; Documenting Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5G_QO_j2KM?rel=0\" height=\"321\" width=\"570\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Photography book: Berenice Abbott &#8211; Documenting Science<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Berenice Abbott &#8211; Documenting Science<br \/>\nSteidel Verlag 2012<br \/>\nISBN 13 9783869304311<\/p>\n<p>Steidel Verlag about the above book: &#8220;<em>Documenting Science<\/em> explores [a body of] work, beginning in 1939 with Abbott\u2019s early experiments with scientific imagery, continuing with science-based commercial assignments, and culminating in 1958 with the Physical Science Study Project at MIT which illustrated a new series of physics text books. This spectacular body of work is arguably Abbott\u2019s most innovative and creative. Both beautiful and instructive, these images often illustrate some basic scientific principle. They are a marriage of science and art, and have fundamentally changed the way thousands of students visualize complex principles of physics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Berenice Abbott<\/h2>\n<p>Lumiere Gallery: &#8220;Born in 1898, <a title=\"Berenice Abbott\" href=\"http:\/\/lumieregallery.net\/wp\/167\/berenice-abbott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berenice Abbott<\/a>\u2019s formative years as an artist were spent in Paris. Her classic images in the Changing New York series were published [as a book] in 1939, ten years after her return from France. It provides a comprehensive picture of the city, much as Eugene Atget had done with his monumental work on Paris. Documenting Science was a partnership with MIT for use in school textbooks. It\u2019s subject and design elements are as timeless as nature and science themselves.&#8221; In the video below we hear Berenice Abbott&#8217;s story about how the Documenting Science photography project started.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q8Vss5tb8JI?rel=0\" height=\"321\" width=\"570\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Video published by Lumiere Gallery<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Related Links<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Berenice Abbott\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berenice_Abbott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berenice Abbott<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\nBerenice Abbott&#8217;s biographpy at iphf.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photography book: Berenice Abbott &#8211; Documenting Science Berenice Abbott &#8211; Documenting Science Steidel Verlag 2012 ISBN 13 9783869304311 Steidel Verlag about the above book: &#8220;Documenting Science explores [a body of] work, beginning in 1939 with Abbott\u2019s early experiments with scientific imagery, continuing with science-based commercial assignments, and culminating in 1958&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-12169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-art-book","tag-berenice-abbott","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.9 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Abbotts science images illustrate basic scientific principle, visualizing complex principles of physics. 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