Berenice Abbott: the photography trailblazer who had supersight — theguardian.com

In April 1939, Berenice Abbott wrote a “manifesto” entitled Photography and Science. “We live in a world made by science,” she stated. “There needs to be a friendly interpreter between science and the layman. I believe photography can be this spokesman, as no other form of expression can be.” Though Abbott is known primarily as a modernist photographer for her black and white images of New York skyscrapers in the 1930s, it is her often formally beautiful science photographs, made between 1939 and 1960, that have been receiving academic and critical re-appraisal of late. In 2012, Steidl published an exhaustive monograph, Berenice Abbott: Documenting Science, to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum.

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