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Berenice Abbott (1898–1991)

Autor/a de New York in the Thirties

45+ obres 682 Membres 8 Ressenyes 1 preferits

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Crèdit de la imatge: Hank O'Neal

Obres de Berenice Abbott

New York in the Thirties (1939) 300 exemplars
Berenice Abbott (1988) 105 exemplars
The world of Atget (1964) 80 exemplars
Photographs (1970) 36 exemplars
The Unknown Berenice Abbott (2013) 18 exemplars
Berenice Abbott (1995) 17 exemplars
A guide to better photography (1941) 15 exemplars
Documenting Science (2012) 15 exemplars
Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision (1989) — Fotògraf — 12 exemplars
A portrait of Maine 10 exemplars
Berenice Abbott: Photographs (1970) 7 exemplars
BERENICE ABBOTT (2019) 6 exemplars
Bernice Abbott/Photographs (1970) 4 exemplars
Berenice Abbott 4 exemplars
Topographien (2016) 3 exemplars
Selected Writings (2020) — Autor — 2 exemplars
The Beauty of Physics (1987) 1 exemplars
Berenice Abbott: The 20s and the 30s (1982) — Fotògraf — 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Bottom of the Harbor (1959) — Il·lustrador, algunes edicions160 exemplars
New York: Portrait Of A City (2012) — Fotògraf — 121 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1898-07-17
Data de defunció
1991-12-09
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Springfield, Ohio, USA
Lloc de defunció
Monson, Maine
Llocs de residència
Springfield, Ohio, USA
Greenwich Village, New York, USA
Educació
Ohio State University
Professions
photographer
teacher
Relacions
Ray, Man (mentor)
McCausland, Elizabeth (companion)
Premis i honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters (American Honorary ∙ 1983)
Biografia breu
Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio and attended Ohio State University with the intention of becoming a journalist. In 1918, however, she moved to Greenwich Village in New York City, and from there traveled to Europe, where she studied sculpture under Brancusi and Bourdelle. From 1923 to 1925, she worked as a darkroom assistant to Man Ray in Paris. In 1926, she opened her own portrait studio there. She was a friend of modernists and ex-patriate artists, including Djuna Barnes. Berenice Abbott's work came to be exhibited alongside that of Man Ray, André Kertész, and others in the Premier Salon Indépendant de la Photographie in Paris, and was acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution, and many other museums and galleries. In 1929, she returned to the USA and continued to practice photography until 1934, when she began to teach. She never married and was the lifetime companion of art historian Elizabeth McCausland. She promoted and curated the work of the French photographer Eugene Atget, whom she admired, bought his photos and placed them in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her books included Changing New York (1939), The View Camera Made Simple (1948), and The World of Atget (1964).

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The photo's in the book were okay. I love photography so there is nothing off limits but the images looked the same as I progressed. . I still skim through this book from time to time.
 
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Koralis | Jul 12, 2022 |
Abbott helped save the work of Atget, whose photography became classic, basic to the history and criticism of photography as Bach is to music. Unfortunately the reproductions are in black and white rather than the warm brown tones that gave the originals some of their essential character, and somewhat too contrast. This book should be considered essential for it's early discussion by Abbott in tandem with the many later fine books and reproductions of Atget's photography.
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j-b-colson | Sep 28, 2013 |
This book opens with, "PHOTOGRAPHY is a new way of seeing," thus establishing both it's relatively early date and an attitude for what is to come. Abbott is a major figure in twentieth century photography for two reasons beyond this book and her other writing; she helped preserve and bring the work of Eugene Atget to the attention of the world (he is now recognized as one of history's greatest photographers) and the documentation she made of New York City, inspired in part by Atget.
Her instruction book is thus important as insight to both her methods and her thinking. The advice is dated, oriented to the large format cameras that were her primary tools, but sound. The examples of her own and other's work given on glossy plates are well chosen, often from historically noted work.… (més)
 
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j-b-colson | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Sep 7, 2010 |

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Membres
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Popularitat
#37,083
Valoració
4.1
Ressenyes
8
ISBN
35
Llengües
4
Preferit
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