Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th-century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the s, and science interpretation in the s to s.
Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, and brought up in Ohio by her divorced mother, née Lillian Alice Bunn (m. Charles E. Abbott in Chillicothe OH, ). She attended Ohio State University for two semesters but left in early when her professor was dismissed because he was a German teaching an English class. She moved to New York City, where she studied sculpture and painting. In she traveled to Paris and studied sculpture with Emile Bourdelle. While in Paris, she became an assistant to Man Ray, who wanted someone with no previous knowledge of photography. Abbott took revealing portraits of Ray's fellow artists.
Abbott was part of the straight photography movement, which stressed the importance of photographs being unmanipulated in both subject matter and developing processes. She also disliked the work of pictorialists who had become popular during a substantial span of her career, leaving her work without support from this scho
Berenice Abbott was born in Springford, Ohio, in After graduating from Ohio State University she moved to New York to study journalism, but eventually decided on sculpture and painting.
In she moved to Paris to study with sculptor Emile Bourdelle. Abbot also worked with the surrealist photographer, Man Ray (), before opening her own studio in Paris. She photographed the leading artists in France and had her first exhibition at the Au Sacre du Printemps Gallery in
Abbott returned to the United States in and embarked on a project to photograph New York. In she managed to obtain funding for this venture from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and its Federal Art Project.
In Abbott joined with Paul Strand to establish the Photo League. Its initial purpose was to provide the radical press with photographs of trade union activities and political protests. Later the group decided to organize local projects where members concentrated on photographing working class communities.
Abbott&#;s photographs of New York appeared in the exhibition, Changing New York, at the Museum of the City in A book, Changing New York, was published in She is also published a Guide to Better Photog
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The definitive biography of the iconic twentieth-century photographer, pioneering documentary modernist, author and inventor.
Berenice Abbott is to American photography what Georgia O’Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. Abbott’s sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography but also as a teacher, writer, archivist and inventor.
A teenage rebel from Ohio, Abbott escaped to Paris—photographing, in Sylvia Beach’s words, “everyone who was anyone”—before returning to New York as the Roaring Twenties ended. Abbott’s best known work, “Changing New York”, documented the city’s s metamorphosis. She then turned to science as a subject, culminating in work important to the s “space race”. This biography secures Abbott’s place in the histories of photography and modern art while framing her accomplishments as a female artist and entrepreneur.
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"The founding curator of the New York Public Library photography collection offers an insightful biography of a pioneering photographer whose work over six decades helped define the modernist tradition Van Haaften offers a sophisticated take on Abbott’s personal and artist
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