This is one in a series of books to be published by Steidl that will explore Berenice Abbott’s exceptional body of work. Abbott began her photographic career in 1925, taking portraits in Paris of some of the most celebrated artists and writers of the day including Marie Laurencin, Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim and James Joyce. Within a year her pictures were exhibited and acclaimed. Paris Portraits 1925–30 features the clear, honest results of Abbott’s earliest photographic endeavor, which illustrates the philosophy that shaped all of her subsequent work. For this landmark book, 115 portraits of 83 subjects have been scanned from the original glass negatives, which have been printed in full.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. Berenice Abbott
Co-published with Commerce Graphics, New York
Berenice AbbottNOT JUST THE PARIS PORTRAITS: PRESERVING BERENICE ABBOTT'S GLASS PLATE NEGATIVES by Elizabeth Larew
NOT JUST THE PARIS PORTRAITS: PRESERVING BERENICE ABBOTT'S GLASS PLATE NEGATIVES by Elizabeth Larew BA Columbia College Chicago, 2011
Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991),[2] née Bernice Alice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s to 1960s.
Born
Bernice Abbott
July 17, 1898
Springfield, Ohio, US
Died December 9, 1991 (aged 93)
Monson, Maine, US
Resting place New Blanchard Cemetery, Blanchard, Maine, U.S.[1]
Nationality United States
Known for Photography
Early years
Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio[3] and brought up there by her divorced mother, née Lillian Alice Bunn (m. Charles E. Abbott in Chillicothe OH, 1886).
She attended Ohio State University for two semesters, but left in early 1918 when her professor was dismissed because he was a German teaching an English class.[4] In Paris, she became an assistant to Man Ray, who wanted someone with no previous knowledge of photography.[5]
Trip to Europe, photography, and poetry
Her university studies included theater and sculpture.,[6] She spent two years studying sculpture in Paris and Berlin.[2] She studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris and the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.[7] During this time, she adopted the French spelling of her first name, "Berenice," at the suggestion of Djuna Barnes.[8] In addition to her work in the visual arts, Abbott published poetry in the experimental literary journal transition.[9] Abbott first became involved with photography in 1923, when Man Ray hired her as a darkroom assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse. Later, she wrote: "I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else." Ray was impressed by her darkroom work and allowed her to use his studio to take her own photographs.[10] In 1921 her first major works was in an exhibition in the Parisian gallery Le Sacre du Printemps. After a short time studying photography in Berlin, she returned to Paris in 1927 and started a second studio, on the rue Servandoni.[11]
Abbott's subjects were people in the artistic and literary worlds, including French nationals (Jean Cocteau), expatriates (James Joyce), and others just passing through the city. According to Sylvia Beach, "To be 'done' by Man Ray or Berenice Abbott meant you rated as somebody".[12] Abbott's work was exhibited with that of Man Ray, André Kertész, and others in Paris, in the "Salon de l'Escalier"[13] (more formally, the Premier Salon Indépendant de la Photographie), and on the staircase of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Her portraiture was unusual within exhibitions of modernist photography held in 1928–1929 in Brussels and Germany.[14]
In 1925, Man Ray introduced her to Eugène Atget's photographs. She became interested in Atget's work,[15] and managed to persuade him to sit for a portrait in 1927.[16] He died shortly thereafter. She acquired the prints and negatives remaining in Eugène Atget's studio at his death in 1927.[17] While the government acquired much of Atget's archive — Atget had sold 2,621 negatives in 1920, and his friend and executor André Calmettes sold 2,000 more immediately after his death[18] — Abbott was able to buy the remainder in June, 1928, and quickly started work on its promotion. An early tangible result was the 1930 book Atget, photographe de Paris[19], in which she is described as photo editor. Due to a lack of funding, Abbott sold a one-half interest in the collection to Julien Levy for $1,000.[20] Abbott's work on Atget's behalf would continue until her sale of the archive to the Museum of Modern Art in 1968. In addition to her book The World of Atget (1964), she provided the photographs for A Vision of Paris (1963), published a portfolio, Twenty Photographs, and wrote essays.[21] Her sustained efforts helped Atget gain international recognition.
Changing New York
In early 1929, Abbott visited New York City, ostensibly to find an American publisher for Atget's photographs. After New York when she was doing portrait photography most of the time, she moved on to documentary photography.[22] Upon seeing the city again, Abbott recognized its photographic potential. She went back to Paris, closed up her studio, and returned to New York in September. She was a central figure that created bridge with photographic hubs in New York City.[23] Her first photographs of the city were taken with a hand-held Kurt-Bentzin camera, but soon she acquired a Century Universal camera which produced 8 × 10 inch negatives.[24] Using this large format camera, Abbott photographed New York City with the diligence and attention to detail she had so admired in Eugène Atget. Atget died in 1927 and she bought all his work which contained over 5000 negatives and glass slides from him and brought it to New York in 1929.[23] Her work has provided a historical chronicle of many now-destroyed buildings and neighborhoods of Manhattan. Her work appeared in an exhibition "Changing New York" at the Museum Of City in 1937. This was a book made to show the transformation of New York City. She focused more on the physical part of the transformation rather than the mental part of it, such as the change of neighborhoods and the replacement of skyscrapers to low rise buildings.[25]
Abbott worked on her New York project independently for six years, unable to get financial support from organizations (such as the Museum of the City of New York), foundations (such as the Guggenheim Foundation), or individuals. She supported herself with commercial work and teaching at the New School of Social Research beginning in 1933.[26]
In 1935, Abbott was hired by the Federal Art Project (FAP)[2] as a project supervisor for her "Changing New York" project. She continued to take the photographs of the city, but she had assistants to help her both in the field and in the office. This arrangement allowed Abbott to devote all her time to producing, printing, and exhibiting her photographs. By the time she resigned from the FAP in 1939, she had produced 305 photographs that were then deposited at the Museum of the City of New York.[24] Abbott's project was primarily a sociological study embedded within modernist aesthetic practices. She sought to create a broadly inclusive collection of photographs that together suggest a vital interaction between three aspects of urban life: the diverse people of the city; the places they live, work and play; and their daily activities. It was intended to empower people by making them realize that their environment was a consequence of their collective behavior (and vice versa). Moreover, she avoided the merely pretty in favor of what she described as "fantastic" contrasts between the old and the new, and chose her camera angles and lenses to create compositions that either stabilized a subject (if she approved of it), or destabilized it (if she scorned it).[27]
Encampment of the unemployed, New York City, 1935
Abbott's ideas about New York were highly influenced by Lewis Mumford's historical writings from the early 1930s, which divided American history into a series of technological eras. Abbott, like Mumford, was particularly critical of America's "paleotechnic era", which, as he described it, emerged at end of the American Civil War, a development called by other historians the Second Industrial Revolution. Like Mumford, Abbott was hopeful that, through urban planning efforts (aided by her photographs), Americans would be able to wrest control of their cities from paleotechnic forces, and bring about what Mumford described as a more humane and human-scaled, "neotechnic era". Abbott's agreement with Mumford can be seen especially in the ways that she photographed buildings that had been constructed in the paleotechnic era—before the advent of urban planning. Most often, buildings from this era appear in Abbott's photographs in compositions that made them look downright menacing.[27]
In 1935, Abbott moved into a Greenwich Village loft with the art critic Elizabeth McCausland, with whom she lived until McCausland's death in 1965. McCausland was an ardent supporter of Abbott, writing several articles for the Springfield Daily Republican, as well as for Trend and New Masses (the latter under the pseudonym Elizabeth Noble). In addition, McCausland contributed the captions for the book of Abbott's photographs entitled Changing New York[28] which was published in 1939. In 1949, her photography book Greenwich Village Today and Yesterday was published by Harper & Brothers.[29]
Ralph Steiner wrote in PM that Abbott's work was "the greatest collection of photographs of New York City ever made."[30]
Gallery
Media related to Changing New York at Wikimedia Commons
Pike and Henry Streets, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482679)
Pike Street at Henry Street (1936)
Automat, 977 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482752)
Automat in Manhattan (1936)
Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482603)
Pennsylvania Station (1936)
Manhattan Bridge, From Bowery and Canal Street, Manhattan to Warren and Bridge Street, Brooklyn, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482814)
Detail of Manhattan Bridge (1936)
John Wanamakers's, Fourth Avenue and 9th Street, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482861)
Wanamaker's department store, Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street (1936)
Financial district rooftops III in Manhattan in 1938
Financial District rooftops (1938)
Seventh Avenue looking south from 35th Street, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482802)
Seventh Avenue, looking south from 35th Street (1935)
Flatiron building, 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482724)
Flatiron Building (1938)
Doorway- Tredwell House, 29 East 4th Street, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-1219143)
House doorway on East 4th Street, Manhattan (1937)
Hot Dog Stand, West St. and North Moore, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-1219152)
Hot dog stand, North Moore Street, Manhattan (1936)
HARDWARE STORE 316-318 Bowery at Bleeker Street in New York City by Berenice Abbott in 1938
Hardware store on the Bowery in Manhattan (1938)
Radio Row-Berenice Abbott
Radio Row at Cortlandt Street (1936)
Beyond New York City
Berenice Abbott
Abbott, date unknown
In 1934 Henry-Russell Hitchcock asked Abbott to photograph two subjects: antebellum architecture and the architecture of H. H. Richardson. Two decades later, Abbott and McCausland traveled US 1 from Florida to Maine, and Abbott photographed the small towns and growing automobile-related architecture.[2] The project resulted in more than 2,500 negatives.
Shortly after the trip, Abbott underwent a lung operation. She was told she should move from New York City due to air pollution. She bought a rundown home in Blanchard, Maine, along the banks of the Piscataquis River for US$1,000. Later, she moved to nearby Monson and remained in Maine until her death in 1991. Most of her work is shown in the United States, but a couple photographs are shown in Europe.
Abbott's work in continued in Maine. Her last book was A Portrait of Maine (1968).
Approach to photography
Abbott was part of the straight photography movement, which stressed the importance of photographs being unmanipulated in both subject matter and developing processes.[31] She also disliked the work of pictorialists who had gained much popularity during a substantial span of her own career and, therefore, left her work without support from this particular school of photographers. Most of Abbott's work was influenced by her unhappy and lonely childhood. This gave her the strength and determination to follow her dreams.[32]
Throughout her career, Abbott's photography was very much a display of the rise in development of technology and society. Her works documented and praised the New York landscape. This was all guided by her belief that a modern-day invention such as the camera deserved to document the 20th century.[33]
Scientific work
Abbott was not only a photographer, but also founded the corporation, "House of Photography," from 1947 to 1959, to develop, promote and sell some of her inventions. She stayed with scientific pictures for twenty years until she died.[22] She has a famous quote saying "the world is made my science".[34] Her works were displayed the rise of development of technology when she created scientific photographs her scientific photos became a hit within two weeks of her releasing them. These included a distortion enlarging easel, which created unusual effects on images developed in a darkroom, and the telescopic lighting pole, known today by many studio photographers as an "autopole," to which lights can be attached at any level. Owing to poor marketing, the House of Photography quickly lost money, and with the deaths of two designers, the company closed.
Abbott's style of straight photography helped her make important contributions to scientific photography. From 1958 to 1960, she produced a series of photographs for a high-school physics textbook, developed by the Physical Science Study Committee project based at MIT to improve secondary school physics teaching. Her work included images of wave patterns in water and stroboscopic images of moving objects, such as Bouncing ball in diminishing arcs, which was featured on the cover of the textbook.[35] She contributed to the understanding of physical laws and properties of solids and liquids though her studies of light and motion.[36] Between 1958 and 1961 she made a series of photographs for Educational Services Inc. was circulated by them and the Smithsonian Institution as an exhibition titled Image of Physics.[36] In 2012, some of her work from this era was displayed at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[37]
Personal life
The film Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century, which showed 200 of her black and white photographs, suggests that she was a "proud proto-feminist"; someone who was ahead of her time in feminist theory. Before the film was completed she questioned, "The world doesn't like independent women, why, I don't know, but I don't care." She identified publicly as a lesbian.[38]
She lived with her partner, art critic Elizabeth McCausland, for 30 years.[31]
Abbott's life and work are the subject of the 2017 novel The Realist: A Novel of Berenice Abbott, by Sarah Coleman.[39]
Notable photographs
Under the El at the Battery, 1932.[40]
New York at Night, 1932.[41]
Tempo of the City I, 1938.[42]
James Joyce, 1928.[43]
Jay Street #115, New York, c.1936.[44]
Automat, 977 Eighth Avenue, New York, 1936.[45]
Radio Row, Cortland Street, Manhattan, c. 1936.[46]
Marie Laurencin, Paris, c.1925.[47]
Triboro Barber School, New York, 1935.[48]
The Hands of Jean Cocteau, 1927.[49]
Fifth Avenue Coach Company, New York, 1932.[50]
Edward Hopper in His Studio, 1949.[51]
Fifth Avenue, Nos. 4,6,8, 1936.[52]
Flatiron Building, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1938.[53]
Father Duffy, Times Square, 1937.[54]
Gunsmith and Police Department Headquarters, 1937.[55]
Church of God, 1936.[56]
Eugene Atget, 1927.[57]
Bibliography
Books of photographs by Abbott:
1939 Changing New York. New York: Dutton, 1939. With text by Elizabeth McCausland.[2]
Reprint: New York in the Thirties, as Photographed by Berenice Abbott (New York: Dover, 1973).[2]
Catalog raisonné edition: augmented, annotated by Bonnie Yochelson, ed., Berenice Abbott: Changing New York (New York: New Press and the Museum of the City of New York, 1997) ISBN 1-56584-377-0 /.
1949 Greenwich Village: Yesterday and Today. New York: Harper, 1949. With text by Henry Wysham Lanier.
1968 A Portrait of Maine. New York: Macmillan, 1968. With text by Chenoweth Hall.
Other books by, or with major contributions from, Abbott:
1930 Atget, photographe de Paris. Paris: Henri Jonquières; New York: E. Weyhe, 1930. (As photograph editor.)[58]
1941 A Guide to Better Photography. New York: Crown, 1941[59] Revised edition: New Guide to Better Photography (New York: Crown, 1953)[60]
1948 The View Camera Made Simple. Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1948[61]
1956 Twenty Photographs by Eugène Atget 1856–1927 (portfolio of silver prints by Abbott from original Atget negatives in her possession)[62]
1963 A Vision of Paris: The Photographs of Eugène Atget, the Words of Marcel Proust. New York: Macmillan, 1963. Edited by Arthur D. Trottenberg[63]
1964 The World of Atget. New York: Horizon, 1964.[64] (And later editions.)
1964 Magnet. Cleveland: World, 1964. With text by Evans G. Valens.[65]
1965 Motion. London: Longman Young, 1965. With text by Evans G. Valens[66]
1968 A Portrait of Maine. NY: Macmillan, 1968. With text by Chenoweth Hall[67]
1969 The Attractive Universe: Gravity and the Shape of Space. Cleveland: World, 1969. With text by Evans G. Valens[68]
2008 Berenice Abbott. Germany/New York: Steidl, 2008. 2v. Edited by Hank O'Neal and Ron Kurtz.[69] ISBN 3-86521-592-0
2010 Berenice Abbott". London: Thames & Hudson, 2010,[70] Introduction by Hank O'Neal
2012 Berenice Abbott: Documenting Science. Göttingen: Steidl, 2012.[71] Edited by Ron Kurtz, with introduction by Julia Van Haaften.
2014 The Unknown Berenice Abbott. Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. 5v. Edited by Ron Kurtz and Hank O'Neal[72]
2015 Berenice Abbott: Paris Portraits. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl; New York: Commerce Graphics, 2016. Edited by Hank O'Neal[73]
Anthologies of and/or about Abbott's works:
1970 Berenice Abbott: Photographs. New York: Horizon, 1970; reprinted, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990[74]
1982 O'Neal, Hank. Berenice Abbott: American Photographer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.[75] British title: Berenice Abbott: Sixty Years of Photography. London: Thames & Hudson, 1982[76]
1986 Berenice Abbott, fotografie / Berenice Abbott: Photographs. Venice: Ikona, 1986[77]
1989 Van Haaften, Julia, ed. Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision. New York: New York Public Library, 1989. [Winner, American Association of Museums' exhibition catalog design award][78] ISBN 0-87104-420-X
2009 Shimizu, Meredith Ann TeGrotenhuis. "Photography in Urban Disclosure: Berenice Abbott's Changing New York and the 1930s," Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 2009[79]
2012 Morel, Gaëlle. Berenice Abbott. Paris: Éditions Hazan, 2012[80]
2015 Berenice Abbott. Aperture Masters of Photography 9, by Julia Van Haaften. New York: Aperture, 1988; trilingual edition, 1997;[81] completely revised edition, with new photos and text, 2015.[82] [Chinese translation 2015[83]
Solo exhibitions
Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY, November 1930[84]
Photographs by Berenice Abbott at Julien Levy Gallery, New York, NY, September 26 – October 15, 1932
New York Photographs by Berenice Abbott at Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, October 1934 – January 1935
New York Photographs by Berenice Abbott at Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, March 1935
New York Photographs by Berenice Abbott at Jerome Stavola Gallery, Hartford, CT, April 1935
New York Photographs by Berenice Abbott at Fine Arts Guild, Cambridge, MA, April 10–15, 1935
Changing New York, Washington Circuit, Federal Art Project, traveling exhibition, 1936
Changing New York at Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, October 20, 1937 – January 3, 1938
Changing New York at Teachers College Library, New York, NY, November 1937
Solo exhibition at Hudson D. Walker Gallery, New York, NY, April 1938
Changing New York at New York State Museum, Albany, NY, July 1938
Changing New York at Federal Art Gallery, New York, NY, April 11–22, 1939
Solo exhibition at Architectural League, New York, NY, April 1939
Changing New York at Lawrenceville School, Lawrence Township, NJ, May 1939
Changing New York at Photo League Gallery, New York, NY, July 1939
Changing New York at New York State Employment Service, New York, NY, November–December 1939
Changing New York at Walton High School, New York, NY, December 1939
Photographs of New York by Berenice Abbott at The Cooper Union Library, New York, NY, November–December 1940
Berenice Abbott, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, December 1970 – February 1971
Berenice Abbott: The Red River Photographs at Hudson D. Walker Gallery at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, August–September 1979[85]
Berenice Abbott: The 20s and the 30s, International Center of Photography, New York City, November 22, 1981 – January 10, 1982
Beauty of Physics at New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, January–April 1987[86]
Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision, The New York Public Library, New York NY, October 1989 – January 1990 (Traveled to Metropolitan Museum of Photography [Tokyo, Japan], Toledo [Ohio] Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art [Washington DC], and Portland [ME] Museum of Art, 1990–1992)
Documenting New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas,1992
Berenice Abbott: Portraits, New York Views, and Science Photographs from the Permanent Collection, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, 1996
Berenice Abbott's Changing New York, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.,1935–1939, 1998–99
Berenice Abbott: Vintage Photographs of New York from the 1930s, Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA, September 1999
Berenice Abbott: Science Photographs, The New York Public Library, New York NY, October 1999 – January 2000
Berenice Abbott: All About Abbott, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY, September–November 2006
Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott, The Fralin Museum of Art, Virginia, 2012
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Photographs, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, February–April 2012
Berenice Abbott: Photography and Science: An Essential Unity, MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May–December 2012
Berenice Abbott, Beetles & Huxley Gallery, London, England, October–November 2015
Berenice Abbott – Photographs, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, January–March 2016
Collections
Abbott's work is held in the following permanent collections:
New York Public Library[87][88][89]
Museum of the City of New York[90]
The Jewish Museum of New York)[91]
Smithsonian American Art Museum[92]
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.[93]
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM[94]
Minneapolis Institute of Art[95]
Cleveland Museum of Art[96]
Walker Art Center[97]
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^ Atget, Eugène; TROTTENBERG, Arthur D; Proust, Marcel (April 6, 1963). "A Vision of Paris. The photographs of Eugène Atget. The words of Marcel Proust (reprinted from "Remembrance of Things Past"). Edited, with an introduction, by Arthur D. Trottenberg, etc. [With portraits of Atget and Proust.]". New York; Lausanne printed – via Open WorldCat.
^ Atget, Eugène; Abbott, Berenice (April 6, 1964). "The world of Atget". Horizon Press – via Open WorldCat.
^ Valens, Evans G; Abbott, Berenice (April 6, 1964). "Magnet". World Pub. Co. – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice (April 6, 1965). "Motion". World Publishing Co. – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice; Hall, Chenoweth (April 6, 1968). "A portrait of Maine". MacMillan ; Collier-Macmillan – via Open WorldCat.
^ Valens, Evans G; Abbott, Berenice (April 6, 1969). "The attractive universe: gravity and the shape of space". World Pub. Co. – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice; Abbott, Berenice (April 6, 2018). "Berenice Abbott". Steidl – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice; O'Neal, Hank (April 6, 2018). "Berenice Abbott". Thames & Hudson – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice; Kurtz, Ron; Van Haaften, Julia; Durant, John (April 6, 2018). "Documenting science". Steidl – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice; Kurtz, Ron; O'Neal, Hank (April 6, 2018). "The unknown Abbott" – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice; Kurtz, Ron; O'Neal, Hank (April 6, 2018). "Berenice Abbott Paris Portraits 1925-1930". Steidl / Commerce Graphics – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice (April 6, 1990). "Berenice Abbott photographs". Smithsonian Institution Press – via Open WorldCat.
^ O'Neal, Hank; Abbott, Berenice (April 6, 1982). "Berenice Abbott, American photographer". McGraw-Hill – via Open WorldCat.
^ O'Neal, Hank; Abbott, Berenice; Canaday, John (April 6, 1982). "Berenice Abbott 60 years of photography". Thames and Hudson – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice; Scuola grande di San Giovanni Evangelista (Venice, Italy); Ikona Gallery (April 6, 1986). "Berenice Abbott, fotografie: Scuola grande San Giovanni Evangelista, 26 giugno-27 luglio 1986". Ikona Gallery – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice; Van Haaften, Julia (April 6, 1989). Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays. New York Public Library – via Open WorldCat.
^ Shimizu, Meredith Ann TeGrotenhuis; Abbott, Berenice; Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) (January 16, 2019). "Photography in urban discourse: Berenice Abbott's changing New York and the 1930s" – via Open WorldCat.
^ Morel, Gaëlle (April 6, 2018). "Berenice Abbott". Éditions Hazan – via Open WorldCat.
^ Abbott, Berenice; Van Haaften, Julia (April 6, 1997). "Berenice Abbott". Könemann – via Open WorldCat.
^ Van Haaften, Julia; Abbott, Berenice (April 6, 2018). "Berenice Abbott" – via Open WorldCat.
^ 哈弗腾; 唐小佳 (April 6, 2018). "光圈世界摄影大师 = Aperture masters of photography". 中国摄影出版社 – via Open WorldCat.
^ This list of exhibitions comes from Meredith TeGrotenhuis Shimizu's dissertation, "Photography and Urban Discourse: Berenice Abbott's Changing New York and the 1930s," 2008
^ Artforum, Summer 1979
^ Levin, Helen (Summer 1987). "The Beauty of Physics". Women Artists News. 12: 29 – via EBSCOhost.
^ Berenice Abbott papers at Manuscripts and Archives Division at the New York Public Library
^ Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library (January 5, 2009). "Guide to the Berenice Abbott Papers" (PDF). Retrieved May 31, 2019.
^ "Berenice Abbott: Changing New York" New York Public Library
^ "Berenice Abbott" Museum of the City of New York
^ "Berenice Abbott" The Jewish Museum (New York)
^ "Berenice Abbott" Smithsonian American Art Museum
^ "Berenice Abbott (1898–1991)" The Phillips Collection
^ "Works – Berenice Abbott – People – Searchable Art Museum". sam.nmartmuseum.org.
^ "Works by Berenice Abbott at the Minneapolis Museum of Art". Minneapolis Institute of Art. Retrieved February 17, 2018.
^ "Search the Collections". Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Cited sources
Bonnie Yochelson (1997). Berenice Abbott: Changing New York. New York: New Press. ISBN 1565845560.
Further reading
Bakewell, Joan; Rodger, Liam (2011). "Abbott, Berenice". Chambers Biographical Dictionary. 9th. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
Broe, Mary Lynn (1993). Women's Writing in Exile. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807842515.
Butet-Roch, Laurence, "Berenice Abbott: Writing Her Own History," The New York Times, May 6, 2015
Documentary Film: Berenice Abbott: A View of the Twentieth Century (1992)
Hillstrom, L. C., & Hillstrom, K. (1999). Contemporary women artists. Detroit: St. James Press.
Kauffman, Bette (1999). "Abbott, Berenice". In Commire, Anne (ed.). Women in World History: A biographical encyclopedia. 1. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, Gale Group. pp. 11–17. ISBN 0787640808.
Noyes Platt, Susan (2004). "Berenice Abbott". In Susan Ware (ed.). Notable American Women: A biographical dictionary, completing the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 2–3. ISBN 067401488X.
Stern, Keith (2009), "Abbott, Bernice", Queers in History, BenBella Books, Inc.; Dallas, Texas, ISBN 978-1-933771-87-8
Wedge, Eleanor F. (2000). "Abbott, Berenice (1898–1991), photographer". American National Biography.
Van Haaften, Julia (2018). Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography, W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393292789, ISBN 978-0393292787.
External links
Media related to Berenice Abbott at Wikimedia Commons
Corinne, Tee A. "Berenice Abbott" (GLBTQ: An encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, transgender and queer culture.)
Teicher, Jessica E. "Inspired by Berenice Abbott"
"Berenice Abbott's Photographic Prints"(Commerce Graphics Ltd, Inc.)
Berenice Abbott (The Museum of Modern Art)
Get the Picture: Berenice Abbott (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
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Elizabeth McCausland
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Eugène Atget
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Grace M. Mayer
Grace M. Mayer (November 26, 1901–December 21, 1996) was a curator of photography for the Museum of the City of New York and for the Museum of Modern Art.
Grapestake Gallery in San Francisco
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Gwen Le Gallienne
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Hank DeVito
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Hank O'Neal
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Helen Gee (curator)
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Hofstra University Museum
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The Museum has two galleries on campus: the Emily Lowe Gallery and the David Filderman Gallery. The Museum and the Emily Lowe Gallery were established in 1963, and have been an active presence in the University for more than 50 years. The David Filderman Gallery was added to the museum in 1991. The Hofstra University Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM).The Hofstra University Museum holds a collection of more than 5,000 art and ethnographic objects dating from 1,500 BCE to the contemporary period and representing six continents. The collections have grown primarily through gifts since the founding of Hofstra University in 1935, prior to the establishment of the Museum, and there have been many local contributors to the Museum’s collections. The Museum is noteworthy for African art and objects; Asian art is another area of strength with works dating from the seventh to the twentieth century.
The Hofstra University Museum owns an early Gauguin oil painting, Portrait of a Woman (1881–82), works by George Grosz, Conrad Felixmüller, Johan Barthold Jongkind, John Thomas Peele, Georges Rouault, Joseph Stella, Jane Peterson, and Alfred Maurer. Photographs in the collection include works of Berenice Abbott, Lucien Clergue, Danny Lyon, August Sander, Andy Warhol, and Edward Weston.
Julien Levy
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Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
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The Camera Club of New York
Since 1884, The Camera Club of New York has been a forum to explore photography. Though the Club was created by well-to-do 'gentlemen' photography enthusiasts seeking a refuge from the mass popularization of the medium in the 1880s, it accepted its first woman as a member, Miss Elizabeth A. Slade, in 1887, only four years after its inception, and later came to accept new ideas and new approaches to the medium.
Over the years the Club helped launch revolutionary new approaches to photography and nurture many photographers who later became giants in the field. Alfred Stieglitz used the Club as a forum and venue to convince a still skeptical public that photography was an art worthy of comparison to painting. Later, as the medium matured, the Club was again the place where the new "straight photography" approach would emerge. Paul Strand, who joined the Camera Club at 17, was introduced to a camera at the Club that had a right-angle viewfinder, allowing one to photograph people unaware. Strand used this camera to produce some of his most memorable images on the streets of New York, including Blind Woman and Wall Street.
The Camera Club was also an important place to hear about new advances in photography. For instance, X-Ray photography was demonstrated there in 1898 and the Autochrome Lumière process, an early form of color photography, in 1909. In 1930 Willard D. Morgan first introduced the new Leica camera to Club members. Among the important lectures held at the Club were Aero Photography by Edward Steichen in 1921 and The Life and Work of Eugène Atget by Berenice Abbott in 1931. Later, Richard Avedon lectured on fashion Photography in 1949.
Today, the Camera Club continues to function as an important resource for photography. The club offers classes in basic camera and darkroom skills, which help nurture and create new pioneers of photography and workspaces for established and emerging photographers. Lectures and exhibits are an important part of the club's program. Since 1999 such important photographers as Eugene Richards, Nigel Parry, Duane Michals, Oliver Weber, Andres Serrano, Eddie Adams, and Henry Horenstein have exhibited and lectured at the club.The Camera Club of New York is located at 126 Baxter Street, New York, NY 10013.
The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.
Among the artists represented in the collection are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Gustave Courbet, El Greco, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Arthur Dove, Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler, Jacob Lawrence, Augustus Vincent Tack, Georgia O'Keeffe, Karel Appel, Joan Miro, Mark Rothko and Berenice Abbott.
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University of Maine Museum of Art
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In the early 1980s, the University Art Collection became the University of Maine Museum of Art. Through the cooperative effort and vision of the City of Bangor and the University of Maine, the museum relocated in December 2002 to downtown Bangor where it has taken on a new role as a regional fine arts center. The facility was designed by the Boston firm, Ann Beha Architects, and now occupies the first floor of Norumbega Hall, a historic downtown building that formerly housed a department store. The Bangor facility, while allowing the museum to showcase a greater proportion of its collection, also enhances the arts scene of the region's largest city.
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Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
1970–1979
1978
Florence Allen Helen Chatfield Black Frances Bolton Elizabeth Boyer Harriet Bracken Martha Kinney Cooper Gertrude Donahey Jane Edna Hunter Consolata Kline Virginia Kunkle Margaret Mahoney Helen Grace McClelland Agnes Merritt Rose Papier Lottie Randolph Ella P. Stewart Marigene Valiquette Ann B. Walker Stella Walsh Marion Wells
1979
Mary Jobe Akeley Mary Ann Bickerdyke Beatrice Cleveland Charity Edna Earley Eleanor Jammal Bernice Kochan Emily Leedy Ruth Lyons Jerrie Mock Emma Phaler Rachel Redinger Bobbie Sterne Ethel Swanbeck Clara Weisenborn Marjorie Whiteman
1980–1989
1980
Grace Berlin Erma Bombeck Patricia M. Byrne Ruth Crawford Louisa Fast Dorothy Fuldheim Lillian Gish Esther Greisheimer Edith Keller Tella Kitchen Blanche Krupansky Hattie Larlham Mary Louise Nemeth Annie Oakley Doris Weber
1981
Mildred Bayer Tina Bischoff Lovin Dorothy Cornelius Doris Day Phyllis Diller Eusebia Hunkins Andre Norton Jean Starr Untermeyer Harriet Taylor Upton Nancy Wilson
1982
A. Margaret Boyd Ann Eriksson Bernice Foley Zelma Watson George Grace Goulder Izant Toni Morrison Phyllis Sewell Jayne Spain Helen Zelkowitz
1983
Harriet J. Anderson Ione Biggs Eula Bingham Mary O. Boyle Mariwyn Heath Josephine Irwin Barbara Janis Minnie Player Gloria Steinem Freda Winning Mary E. Miller Young
1984
Sally Cooper Sarah E. Harris Cindy Noble Hauserman Marcy Kaptur Karen Nussbaum Mary Rose Oakar Catherine Pinkerton Willa Player Judith Resnik Helen Hooven Santmyer Marian Trimble Joyce Wollenberg
1985
Lois Anna Barr Cook Mercedes Cotner Zell Draz Barbara Easterling Nikki Giovanni Aurora Gonzalez Mary Lazarus Barbara Mandel Norma Marcere Helen Mulholland Lauretta Schimmoler Marge Schott Mary Jen Steinbrenner
1986
Margaret Andrew Kathleen Barber Fay Biles Elizabeth Blackwell Marie Clarke Eva Mae Crosby Ruby Dee Cynthia Drennan Hooker Glendinning Louise Herring Katherine LeVeque Ruth Ratner Miller Amelia Nava Arline Webb Pratt Anastasia Ann Przelomski Virginia Purdy Selma Lois Walker Julia Walsh Faye Wattleton Mary Ellen Withrow
1988
Anna Biggins Patricia Clonch Norma Craden Jewel Freeman Graham Cathy Guisewite Rebecca D. Jackson Carol Heiss Jenkins Carol Kane Bea Larsen Alice Raful Lev Linda Rocker Sogg Eleanor Smeal Carolyn Utz Anita Smith Ward
1989
Jeanette Grasselli Brown Maxine Carnahan Tracy Chapman Betsy Mix Cowles Ann Gazelle Michelle Graves Florence Harshman June Hutt Geraldine Jensen Carolyn Mahoney Linda Myers Jennie Porter Diane Poulton Renee Powell Charlene Spretnak Charlene Ventura
1990–1999
1990
Marilyn Gaston Dorothy Jackson Luella Talmadge Jackson Janet Kalven Rosabeth Kanter Maggie Kuhn Joan Lamson Maya Lin Anne Variano Macko Alicia Mott Ludel Sauvageot Fanchon bat-Lillian Shur Phebe Temperance Sutliff Grayce Williams
1991
Berenice Abbott Earladeen Badger Hallie Brown JoAnn Davidson Raquel Diaz-Sprague Rita Dove Mary Ignatia Gavin Sara Harper Donna Hawk June Holley Martha C. Moore Darlene Owens Helen H. Peterson Martha Pituch Yvonne Pointer Virginia Ruehlmann Josephine Schwarz Suzanne Timken Nancy Vertrone Bieniek Stella Marie Zannoni
1992
Mary of the Annunciation Beaumont Antoinette Eaton Rubie McCullough Nancy Oakley Harriet Parker Susan Porter Helen Steiner Rice Alice Schille Louella Thompson
1993
Mildred Benson Amelia Bingham Virginia Coffey Viola Famiano Colombi Ivy Gunter Virginia Hamilton Lucy Webb Hayes Joy Alice Hintz Geraldine Macelwane Anne O'Hare McCormick Rena Olshansky Edna Pincham Maxine Plummer Jean Reilly Pauline Riel
1994
Christine M. Cook Claudia Coulton Ellen Walker Craig-Jones Nanette Ferrall Jill Harms Griesse Georgia Griffith Florence Melton Lucille Nussdorfer Jane Reece Emma Ann Reynolds Carol Scott Paula Spence Deanna Tribe Lillian Wald
1995
Sandra Beckwith Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge Patricia Ann Blackmon Mary Bowermaster Christine Brennan Joy Garrison Cauffman Bunny Clark Grace Drake Naomi Evans Frances Dana Gage Jane Kirkham Sylvia Lewis Tami Longaberger Donna Moon Gratia Murphy Alice Robie Resnick Muriel Siebert
1996
Carol Cartwright Elizabeth Evans Rae Natalie Goodall Elizabeth Hauser Bernadine Healy Carol Kelly Fannie Lewis Betty Montgomery Hope Taft
1997
Carol Ball Marilyn Byers Jean Murrell Capers Martha Dorsey Joan Heidelberg Clarice Herbert Beatrice Lampkin Jacquelyn Mayer Townsend Ann O'Rourke Beryl Rothschild Thekla Shackelford
1998
Marianne Boggs Campbell Carole Garrison Nancy Hollister Stephanie J. Jones Bettye Ruth Kay Barbara Ross-Lee Audrey Mackiewicz Kathy Palasics Margaret Diane Quinn Henrietta Seiberling Mary Emily Taylor Virginia Varga Jacqueline Woods Nancy Lusk Zimpher
1999
MaryJo Behrensmeyer Alvina Costilla Sarah Deal Electra Doren Daisy Flowers Annie Glenn Ann Hamilton Carole Hoover Cheryl Han Horn Carol Latham Nancy Linenkugel Marie Barrett Marsh Marjorie Parham Mary Regula Lee Lenore Rubin Harriet Beecher Stowe Jerry Sue Thornton Janet Voinovich
2000–2009
2000
Paige Ashbaugh Maude Charles Collins Faye Dambrot Margarita de Leon Patricia Louise Fletcher Jean Patrice Harrington Shirley Hoffman Dorothy Kazel Farah Majidzadeh Ada Martin Lorle Porter Lanna Samaniego Yvonne Taylor Margaret Wong Betty Zane
2001
Rebecca Boreczky Frances Jennings Casement Ruth L. Davis Lucille Ford Susan F. Gray Kathleen Harrison Adella Prentiss Hughes Janet E. Jackson Dottie Kammie Kamenshek Maxine Levin Irene Long Martha MacDonell Mary Andrew Matesich Elizabeth Powell Deborah Pryce Maria Sexton Farah Walters Georgeta Blebea Washington
2002
Judy Barker Frances Seiberling Buchholzer Joan Brown Campbell Nancy Frankenberg Zell Hart-Deming Elsie Helsel Katie T. Horstman Jennie Hwang Cathy Monroe Lewis Viola Startzman Robertson Stefanie Spielman Kathryn D. Sullivan
2003
Sheila Bailey Jeraldyne Kilborn Blunden Shannon Carter Luceille Fleming Olga Gonzalez-Sanabria Elsie Janis Lois Lenski Ellen Mosley-Thompson Cathy Nelson Evlyn Gray Scott Yvonne Williams
2007
Rogers Margaret Brugler Julia Chatfield Lucille Hastings Lillie Howard Mary Ann Jorgenson Joyce Mahaney Rozella Schlotfeldt Katherine May Smith Florence Wang
2008
Dorothy Baunach Carrie Black Caro Bosca Yvette McGee Brown Loann Crane Joan Durgin Carol Gibbs Billie Johnson Jih Lei Elizabeth Magee Kasturi Rajadhyaksha Julie Salamon Michele Wheatly
2009
Gail Collins Pamela B. Davis Kim de Groh Beverly J. Gray Sharon Howard Carol Kuhre Virginia Manning Helen Moss Judith Rycus Mary Adelaide Sandusky Glenna Watson Bernett Williams Celia Williamson
2010–2019
2010
Owens Alvarene Tenenbaum Gayle Channing Dorothy McAlpin Maguire Chapman Barbara Fergus Merle Grace Kearns Rebecca J. Lee Nina McClelland Lana Moresky Martha Potter Otto Elizabeth Ruppert Rita Singh
2011
Cheryl A. Boyce Elizabeth H. Flick Frances Harper Brenda J. Hollis Mary C. Juhas Kleia R. Luckner Valerie J. Lyons Linda S. Noelker Carrie Vonderhaar
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