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Berenice Abbott is to American photography what Georgia O Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. Abbott's sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography but also as a teacher, writer, archivist and inventor. A teenage rebel from Ohio, Abbott escaped to Paris photographing, in Sylvia Beach's words, everyone who was anyone before returning to New York as the Roaring Twenties ended. Abbott's best known work, Changing New York , documented the city's 1930s metamorphosis. She then turned to science as a subject, culminating in work important to the 1950s space race . This biography secures Abbott's place in the histories of photography and modern art while framing her accomplishments as a female artist and entrepreneur.
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This handsome publication presents legendary American photographer Berenice Abbott’s work in three categories: her portraits, photographs of the city and scientific photographs. The opening section presents Abbott’s portraits of mold-breaking individuals who changed the world from the mid-1920s onward such as Djuna Barnes, the New Yorker's Janet Flanner, Jean Cocteau and James Joyce. The second part offers a dazzling portrait of New York which takes into account Abbott’s relations with and her fascination for the work of Eugène Atget by including an introductory group of his photographs, which she printed from his negatives. The third and final section focuses on Abbott’s scientific photographs, which she started to produce in the late 1940s. Berenice Abbott was undoubtedly one of the defining portraitists of New York. Shops, people, bridges, streets, interiors, famous buildings under construction seen from outside or from above (the same ones that are visible today from the highway that runs round Manhattan) together make up this portrait. Berenice Abbott (1891–1991) was born in Springfield, Ohio. She began her photography career in 1923, as Man Ray's darkroom assistant. Her work is collected in some of the most prestigious museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art.
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"The American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is known best for her documentation of New York in the 1930s and for her efforts to gain recognition for the work of Eugène Atget in both Europe and the United States. This attractive book features 120 photographs and a series of rarely seen documents (including letters, book layouts, and periodicals), illuminating the three major periods of Abbott's career: her early work in the United States and Paris during the 1920s; her project Changing New York (1935-39), created for the Federal Art Project; and her scientific pictures made between 1939 and 1961. By detailing Abbott's influences and production both home and abroad, Berenice Abbott underscores the photographer's role as one of the 20th century's most remarkable artists. Abbott left the United States in 1921 to study sculpture in Paris, where she was hired by Man Ray in 1923 to be his assistant. She took to photography immediately and by 1926 had set up her own studio. She became famous for her photographs showing bohemian artistic and intellectual life in the city, but in 1929 she returned to the United States and set up a new studio. Her best-known and most influential work, Changing New York, represented both a vast exercise in recording the architecture and urban life of New York and an intensely personal artistic project. Her straightforward method of photography led to her being employed full-time in the 1950s by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston to produce pictures illustrating the laws of physics."--Publisher's website.
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Architectural photography. --- Photography, Artistic. --- Portrait photography. --- Abbott, Berenice,
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fotografie --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- stadsfotografie --- Verenigde Staten --- New York --- Abbott Berenice --- Levere Douglas --- herfotografie --- documentaire fotografie --- architectuurfotografie --- 77.071 LEVERE --- Photography --- New York (State) --- New York (N.Y.) --- History --- 20th century --- Pictorial works --- Abbott, Berenice --- Abbott, Berenice, --- Levere, Douglas,
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fotografie --- twintigste eeuw --- stadsfotografie --- documentaire fotografie --- Verenigde Staten --- New York --- Abbott Berenice --- 77.071 ABBOTT --- Photography --- History --- Abbott, Berenice, --- New York (N.Y.)
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photography [process] --- fotografie --- Photography --- introd. par Hank O'Neal --- 77.071 ABBOTT --- Abbott Berenice --- Verenigde Staten --- New York --- portretfotografie --- Abbott (berenice), 1898-1991
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Pendant plus de 30 ans, Eugène Atget photographia avec obsession la ville de Paris et ses environs. Il découvrit un marché de photographies documentaires du vieux Paris qui furent rachetées par des artistes en tant que motif pour leurs toiles. Mais pour Atget, la production de photographies sur l'ancienne culture française était également l'occasion de faire de l'art. Ses photographies sont sans égal dans leur réalisme et leur réponse lyrique aux vibrations vivantes de la ville ainsi qu'aux artéfacts qui décrivent la vie humaine dans quasiment toutes les classes sociales. Il créa quelques-unes des images de lumière et d'espace les plus harmonieusement articulées.
Photographe --- Atget, Eugène --- 20e siècle --- Photographers --- Photographers. --- Photography, Artistic. --- Abbott, Berenice, --- United States. --- fotografie --- photography [process] --- Photography --- Abbott, Berenice --- Women photographers --- Fotografen --- Ben Lifson --- Frankrijk --- architectuurfotografie --- reportagefotografie --- Atget Eugène --- 77.071 ATGET --- Fotograaf --- Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991 --- Abbott (berenice), 1898-1991
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