Berenice Abbott Documenting Science (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Very slight yellowing to page edges. Book in fine - condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Fascination with the scientific advances that were rapidly changing the world motivated Berenice Abbott to use photography as "the friendly interpreter of science". Documenting Science explores this work, beginning in 1939 with Abbott's 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 textbooks. This spectacular body of work is arguably Abbott's 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Gray cloth, black titles, & photo tipped onto cover, pale endpapers / pastedown, two short essays, & many black & white photo illustrations; A near fine copy; 11.5"x12.25"; 179 pages. Berenice Abbott (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. First Edition.

Condition: Neuf.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition stated - scarce original clothbound hardcover, no jacket as issued, large edition, about 12 x 13, 178 pages with majority of book broken into difference science categories with b + w plates throughout each. Very nice. Has some soiling and rubbing wear to back cloth boards; few spots to outer page edges. Mild reading wear. Very nice. NO INTERNATIONAL or PRIORITY SHIPPING POSSIBLE.…