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Berenice Abbott


Born: 1898 - US, OH, Springfield
Died: 1991
Gender: Female
Active: US
 
Her shots of New York are some of the most important records of the city.

(4 March 2015) It was announced that the archive of Berenice Abbott had been acquired by Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) in Toronto. A press release said: the Abbott Archive is comprised of more than six thousand photographs and seven thousand negatives from the mid-1920s through the 1980s, as well as book maquettes, correspondence, personal journals, business records, and ephemera. Highlights include her early studio portraiture from Paris and New York (1926 and onwards); photographs from her seminal project Changing New York (1935-39); American landscapes, including her abandoned book project focusing on U.S. coastal highway Route 1; her final published series, A Portrait of Maine (1968); and a large selection of her innovative scientific photography. In addition to her own work, the archive includes Eugène Atget photographs printed by Abbott as well as original Atget negatives, reminders of her tireless work rescuing and promoting the French photographer's oeuvre."

Genealogy of Berenice Abbott

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Salvatore Piermarini, n.d., Berenice Abbott, Manhattan 1922 (Photo by Man Ray), Drawing, Provided by the artist - Salvatore Piermarini, LL/59255
Image: LL/59255
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Salvatore Piermarini, n.d., Portrait of Berenice Abbott, New York, Drawing, Provided by the artist - Salvatore Piermarini, LL/59189
Image: LL/59189
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Man Ray, 1921 (taken), Berenice Abbott, Gelatin silver print, J. Paul Getty Museum, LL/50495
Image: LL/50495
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Berenice Abbott, 1925 (ca), Self-Portrait of Berenice Abbott with Large Format Camera, Gelatin silver print, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/67908
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Walker Evans, 1929-1930 (ca, taken, later print), Berenice Abbott, New York City, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, LL/63585
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Walker Evans, 1930 (ca), Berenice Abbott, Silver print, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/50288
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Consuelo Kanaga, 1935 (ca), Berenice Abbott with view camera, Gelatin silver print, George Eastman Museum, LL/69907
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Barbara Morgan, 1942 (taken) 1980 (print), Berenice Abbott with Cat, Private collection of Henri van der Tol, LL/47728
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Barbara Morgan, 1942 (taken) 1981 (ca, print), Berenice Abbott with Cat, Gelatin silver print, Philadelphia Museum of Art, LL/72010
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Arnold Newman, 1944, Berenice Abbott, Gelatin silver print, Peter Fetterman Gallery, LL/732
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Lionel F. Stevenson, 1969, Berenice Abbott in her wolf parka, Blanchard, ME, Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Lionel F. Stevenson, LL/57295
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Hank O'Neal, 1979, 18 November, Berenice Abbott, Black and white print, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/44213
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Paul Maurer, 1979, June, Berenice Abbott, Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Paul Maurer, LL/48626
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Todd Watts, 1981, Berenice Abbott, Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Todd Watts, LL/47322
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Biography provided by Focal press
 
Man Ray's Paris assistant. She met Atget just before his death in 1927, subsequently rescuing and promoting his photographs. Opened a New York studio in 1929 and used an 8 x 10 inch camera to create a photographic record of the city that fused Atget's unadorned realism with the playfulness and humor of her Parisian modernist experience. Stylistically, she worked from many viewpoints often cropping her prints to manifest the chaotic and complex relationship of beauty and decay within an urban environment.
 
(Author: RH)
 
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] (Used with permission)
 
Wikipedia
 
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.
 

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