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Berenice Abbott Photography and Science: An Essential Unity at the MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, until 31 December
I AM mesmerised by Berenice Abbott’s wave and interference images. Not only are they visually stunning and scientifically informative, they also hide a secret. These, like many of the black-and-white prints on display at the MIT Museum exhibition of her work, and in the accompanying book,Documenting Science, were taken using innovative photography techniques and apparatus devised by Abbott…
