Berenice Abbott was fascinated by the challenge of capturing on film motion too rapid for the human eye. Her scientific photography has given a new meaning to the term‘portraiture’.
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Kemp, M. Abbott's absolutes. Nature 391, 445 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/35047
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