Biography of berenice abbott
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Berenice Abbott
Nightview, Unusual York
1932
Silver dainty print
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Berenice Abbott
Fifth Avenue Abodes, Nos. 4, 6, 8
1936
Silver gelatin lope, printed later
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Berenice Abbott
Tri-Boro Composer School, 264 Bowery
1935
Silver goody print
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Berenice Abbott
Oyster Houses, Southbound Street point of view Pike Slip
1931-32
Silver gelatin put out, printed later
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Berenice Abbott
Blossom Edifice, 103 Street, New York
1935
Silver gelatin issue, printed later
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Berenice Abbott
Happy’s Rejuvenation Stand work to rule Two Men, Florida
1954
Silver dainty print, printed later
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Berenice Abbott
Under the Phone at depiction Battery, Pristine York
1936
Silver goody print, printed later
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Berenice Abbott
Gunsmith and Police officers Station, Creative York
1937
Silver dainty print, mounted on business card, printed later
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Berenice Abbott
Automat, 977 Eighth Driveway, New York
1936
Silver gelatin issue, printed later
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Berenice Abbott
Ferris Florida
1954
Silver membrane print, printed later
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Berenice Abbott
American photographer (1898–1991)
Berenice Abbott | |
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Berenice Abbott (1930s) | |
| Born | Berenice Alice Abbott July 17, 1898 (1898-07-17) Springfield, Ohio, US |
| Died | December 9, 1991(1991-12-09) (aged 93) Monson, Maine, US |
| Resting place | New Blanchard Cemetery, Blanchard, Maine, U.S.[1] |
| Known for | Photography |
Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991)[2] was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.
Early years
[edit]Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio[3] and brought up in Ohio by her divorced mother, née Lillian Alice Bunn (m. Charles E. Abbott in Chillicothe OH, 1886).
She attended The Ohio State University for two semesters, but left in early 1918 when her professor was dismissed because he was a German teaching an English class.[4] She moved to New York City, where she studied sculpture and painting. In 1921 she traveled to Paris and studied sculpture with Emile Bourdelle.[5] While in Paris, she became an assistant to Man Ray, who wanted someone with no previous k
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Biography
Born in Springfield, Ohio, Berenice Abbott spent the early part of her artistic career studying sculpture in New York, Berlin, and Paris, where she worked as Man Ray's studio assistant. This experience led her to photography, and in 1926 she established herself as an independent photographer whose portraits of well-known artists and writers rivaled those of Man Ray in excellence and renown. Through Man Ray, she met Eugène Atget, whose photographs of the transformation of Paris from the ancien regime through the mid-1920s impressed her with their methodical technique and intuitive inflections of artistry. Upon Atget's death, Abbott purchased his photographic oeuvre, and for more than forty years tirelessly promoted his work. It is largely through her efforts that this great photographer is still known today.
In 1929, Abbott returned to the United States, where she embarked on her best-known body of work--a documentation of New York City for which she developed her famous bird's-eye and worm's-eye points-of-view. She worked on the project independently through the early years of the Depression, and in 1935, secured funding from the Federal Art Project (a part of the Works Progress Administration). Her pictures were published as Changing New York (1939), which was