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 1958–1960; print 1982
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
8c0608d5-c22c-4bda-939c-7eef4e82f699

Iron filings are sprinkled on a translucent surface above a bar magnet, thereby illustrating the magnet's magnetic field. The iron filings also react to a metal key that is placed on top of the translucent surface, at an angle to the magnet.

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