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Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) 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.
Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) 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.
In January 1929, after eight years in Europe, the American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) boarded an ocean liner to New York City for what was meant to be a short visit. Upon arrival, she found the city transformed and ripe with photographic potential.
Berenice Abbott (born July 17, 1898, Springfield, Ohio, U.S.—died December 9, 1991, Monson, Maine) was a photographer best known for her photographic documentation of New York City in the late 1930s and for her preservation of the works of Eugène Atget.
Dec 9, 1991 · Berenice Abbott was an American photographer known for her portraits and documentary photographs which stressed the communicative, even educational value of the photographic print. She pursued a realist vision in recording history and her own historical experience in order to potentially affect change in her audience.
Mar 15, 2023 · When the American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) returned to the United States in January 1929 after eight years in Europe, she was seized by a “fantastic passion” to photograph New York.
To Paris in the 1920s came Berenice Abbott, a young woman fresh from Ohio State University's School of Journalism and from New York's Greenwich Village. Yet, despite this experience, she was still looking for her career, for her real profession and life's work.
Aug 16, 2023 · “Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929” takes us back to an invigorating moment in the history of the metropolis, captured on the fly by an emergent modern artist.
Jun 24, 2022 · Berenice Abbott had one of the most astonishingly wide-ranging artistic careers of the twentieth century. Remembered today as a pioneer of street photography, she also captured portraits of the artistic elite in Paris and Harlem and pushed the field of scientific photography forward at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Aug 30, 2019 · She was planning to live until she was 102, the American photographer Berenice Abbott told the documentary film-makers Kay Weaver and Martha Wheelock when they came to Maine to film her in the...
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