Super Sight
Berenice Abbott and Muriel Rukeyser's Lost Collaboration
$98.55
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2027
Summary
Super Sight
The historic collaboration between innovative photographer Berenice Abbott and writer Muriel Rukeyser – two of the twentieth century’s most remarkable female artists – published here for the first time.
In the 1940s, American photographer Berenice Abbott developed the Super Sight camera: a pioneering device that captured precise close-up images in striking detail. Using it, Abbott turned its lens on simple, everyday objects – a hand, a bird’s wing, an apple, a wa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580937221 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580937225 |
| Author: | Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Carolyn Vega, Elizabeth Cronin, L.M. Ramsey |
| Publisher: | Monacelli Press |
| Imprint: | Monacelli Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 292mm |
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein is Professor of Gender Studies and Women’s Writing at the University of Bristol, and author and editor of multiple books on and by Muriel Rukeyser.
Carolyn Vega is the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Curator of English and American Literature at The New York Public Library.
Elizabeth Cronin is the Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography at The New York Public Library.
L.M. Ramsey is an artist and the Associate Manager of Conservation Documentation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Paper Conservation team.
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