Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)

The Science Pictures Portfolio: Path of A Moving Ball; Cycloid; Magnetic Field; Swinging Ball; Multiple Flash Photograph; Spinning Wrench; Pendulum Swing; Soap Bubbles; Water Pattern; Beams of Light Through Glass; Collision of; Two Balls; Magnetic Field, 1945-1961, printed 1982

Gelatin silver prints (12)

Variable dimensions, mounted on 24 by 30 inches board

Each signed & numbered 'AP' or 'PP' in pencil on the mount and copyright credit portfolio stamp on verso.

Edition of 60

Sold

Provenance

Parasol Press, New York, 1982

Howard Stein (1926-2011), Joy of Giving Something Foundation, New York

Their sale, Phillips, The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation, New York, 3 October 2017, lot 136

Private collection, New York

Exhibitions

(other editions)

New York, Public Library, Berenice Abbott: Science Photographs, 2 October 1999 – 8 January 2000

Paris, Jeu de Paume, Berenice Abbott (1898-1991): Photographs, 20 February – 29 April 2012;

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 23 May – 19 August 2012

Cambridge, MA, MIT Museum, Berenice Abbott: Photography and Science: An Essential Unity, 3 May – 31 December 2012

Charlotesville, VA, The Fralin Museum of Art, Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott, 31 August – 16 December 2012

South Hadley, MA, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Beautiful Physics: Photographs by Berenice Abbott, 19 August – 17 December 2017

Literature

Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott American Photographer, New York 1985, pp. 216-217, 220-222, 225-226, 230-233

Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott, Centre National De La Photographie, Collection Photo Poche, Paris 1995, no. 61, pls. 58-60

Gaëlle Morel, a.o., Berenice Abbott, Ryerson Image Centre 2012, pp. 155, 164-165, 168-169, 177