"Photography, Science, and Life" is the first in a series of internet features containing work complementary to the articles published in Image, George Eastman House’s magazine. Image is published for George Eastman House members at the Sustainer level and above. Find out more about this and other membership benefits.

Following is a memoir of a visit shared by Margaret Geller and Berenice Abbott fifteen years ago. Dr. Geller is a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and a winner of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. She studies galaxies at the edge of time and makes prize-winning films about them. Berenice Abbott was a legendary twentieth-century documentary photographer. The memoir tells the story of two peoples’ lifelong fascination with the beauty of science.

Photography, Science, and Life

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