Exposição - So Easy To See: Berenice Abbott’s Super Sight, MIT, Massachusetts, until march 29th 2024
Fish Head, 1946. Gelatin silver print. Berenice Abbott Collection, MIT Museum.
In 1939, relentless experimenter and inventor Berenice Abbott embarked on a new project to ally photography and science, proposing a bold artistic role for herself as a “friendly interpreter between science and the layman.”
Abbott developed a method to produce large photographs of small objects without the intervention of a photographic enlarger. Her technique of direct image capture, which she called the “Abbott Process,” or “Super Sight,” was loosely based on the ancient camera obscura and produced images of definition and transparency that were astonishing in their realism.