https://coveringphotography.bc.edu/files/original/3/6003/Abbott2-Killian72.jpg 8e67fd91b7366b299d0c6aede9870756 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Covering Photography Main Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Author Author of the book upon which the photograph appears Friedman (coordinator), Francis L. Photograph Title Title of photograph front cover: Multiple exposure of bouncing golf ball ca. 1959, back cover: Water Patterns (from 'Science Pictures'), probably late 1950s Book Genre Textbook Photo Genre Genre of Photograph Scientific (strobe) Photographer Photographer Abbott, Berenice Designer Designer of book cover Not listed Notes Notes associated with the item Between 1939 and 1961, Berenice Abbott produced a series of photographs demonstrating basic scientific principles. The 'Science Pictures', as they were called, led to her being hired to photographically illustrate a new high school physics textbook. Many of these photographs were later published in the books Magnet, Motion, and The Attrractive Universe, all in collaboration with the writer Evans G. Valens. This 1960 first edition of Physics is almost certainly the textbook for which Abbott made her science pictures. Although the books stated publisher is D.C. Heath, it was produced under the aegis of the Educational Services, Inc. (ESI), Physical Science Coordinating Committee, which oversaw an enormous collaborative effort between scientists and academics on both the high school and college level. The book has no chief author, but credit for coordinating the project is given to Dr. Francis L. Friedman, a Professor of Physics at MIT. Both the front and back cover photographs are by Berenice Abbott, and though she is not specifically credited with making them (these two images are well-known enough to leave no doubt as to their creator), she is mentioned by Dr. Friedman as one of the books primary photographers (in collaboration with James Strickland), and is also on the Contributors list.* The cover design, also anonymous, is simple and straightforwardly modernist, as one might expect from a 1960 science textbook. For my money, it does the job quite nicely. An interesting footnote: The books preface is written by James R. Kilian, a former President of MIT, the Chair of ESI's Board of Trustees, and the co-author of Dr. Harold Edgerton's important photography monograph, Moments of Vision. KB *'Physics', D.C. Heath publishers 1960, Appendix 3, pp. 643 & 646 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available D. C. Heath and Company Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960 Relation A related resource Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Title A name given to the resource Physics[cover spread] Type The nature or genre of the resource hidden