Berenice Abbott

(AMERICAN 1898 - 1991)

Berenice Abbott left the American Midwest in 1918 to study in New York City, Paris, and Berlin. In Paris she became an assistant to Man Ray and Eugène Atget. In 1925 she set up her own studio and made portraits of Parisian artists, writers, collectors and expatriates. She retrieved and catalogued Atget's prints and negatives after his death. In the 1930s she photographed New York's neighborhoods for the WPA Federal Art Project, documenting its changing architecture; many of the photographs were published in Changing New York (1939).

BERNICE ABBOTT
street shops new york chop suey awning

Chop Suey, West 8th Street, New York, NY

3 story tall wood boat docked people foreground

W.P.O. Illinois & Wharf, New York, NY

Tugboats docks at wharf

Tugboats, Pier 11, East River, New York, NY

birds eye / Isometric View of City at night

Nightview, 1932, New York, NY ~ SOLD

Plaster Deer in Shop Window Display

Designer's Window, Bleecker Street, New York, NY ~ SOLD

Gun Store sign in City street shaped like gun

Gunsmith, 6 Center Market Place, New York, NY ~ SOLD

Lyric Theatre entrance with floor posters and people on sidewalk

Lyric Theatre, New York, NY ~ SOLD

“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.”
— Berenice Abbott
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