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Hace 4 días · Berenice Abbott “The camera alone can catch the. swift surfaces of the cities today and speaks a language intelligible to all.” ~Berenice Abbott. Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) transcended the role of a mere architectural photographer. She became a chronicler of New York City in metamorphosis during its most dynamic transformation in the 1930s.
Hace 4 días · Nearly 75 years ago photographer Berenice Abbott produced what would become a historic document in New York City’s history — a collection of 1930s photographs of architectural landmarks,...
Hace 4 días · This new episode takes us from New York to Paris and along Route 1 on the Atlantic coast of the United States to discover several cities and figures documented by the American photographer Berenice Abbott, who was born in 1898. She left New York at the age of 23 to settle in Paris and became Man Ray’s assistant, who, impressed by her ...
Hace 23 horas · I happened to read a biography of the 20th century lesbian large format photographer Berenice Abbott and there was a part in it where apparently she went on a road trip in 1935 with a woman who had a crush on her and who she also had a crush on, an art critic named Elizabeth McCausland. It was all very gay and very flirty.
Hace 3 días · Also featured are three black-and-white photographs by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), each dating to the 1930s and printed decades later, and having identical individual estimates of $2,000-$3,000. These choice images are from the period when Abbott was documenting New York City, finding rich troves of subject matter in the vast cityscape.
Hace 4 días · Berenice Abbott in 1936, Image from New York Public Library. “Automats were right up there with the Statue of Liberty and Madison Square Garden ,” Kent L. Barwick, former...
Hace 5 días · Arts & Culture New York. Vintage Photos: 19th & Early 20th Century NYC Street Food Vendors. billy hagberg. Photo by Berenice Abbot from New York Public Library. We’ve already examined food...
