Cycloid

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Cycloid

Creator

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 1958–1960; print 1982
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
85209ea3-5cb7-40a2-83cb-87636e26b81a

Long-exposure photograph illustrating the cycloid curve using a cylinder that is fastened with two light sources. The cylinder travels toward the right side of the image along a horizontal plane, thereby creating two light trails, one of which consists of a series of arches.

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