Magnetic Field

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Magnetic Field

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Berenice Abbott

American Photographer · 1898–1991

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> The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the v

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Date
negative 1958–1961; print 1982
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
076a488e-971b-43c3-98f3-b676e8e73b9a

Negative image of iron filings sprinkled on a surface above a bar magnet, thereby illustrating the magnet's magnetic field.

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