The comprehensive biography of the iconic twentieth-century American photographer Berenice Abbott, a trailblazing documentary modernist, author, and inventor. Berenice Abbott is to American photography as Georgia O'Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. She was a photographer of astounding innovation and artistry, a pioneer in both her personal and professional life. Abbott's sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography, but also as a teacher, writer, archivist, and inventor. Famously reticent in public, Abbott's fascinating life has long remained a mystery―until now. In Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography, author, archivist, and curator Julia Van Haaften brings this iconic public figure to life alongside outlandish, familiar characters from artist Man Ray to cybernetics founder Norbert Wiener. A teenage rebel from Ohio, Abbott escaped first to Greenwich Village and then to Paris―photographing, in Sylvia Beach's words, "everyone who was anyone." As the Roaring Twenties ended, Abbott returned to New York, where she soon fell in love with art critic Elizabeth McCausland, with whom she would spend thirty years. In the 1930s, Abbott began her best-known work, Changing New York, in which she fearlessly documented the city's metamorphosis. When warned by an older male supervisor that "nice girls" avoid the Bowery―then Manhattan's skid row―Abbott shot back, "I'm not a nice girl. I'm a photographer...I go anywhere." This bold, feminist attitude would characterize all Abbott's accomplishments, including imaging techniques she invented in her influential, space race-era science photography and her tenure as The New School's first photography teacher. With more than ninety stunning photos, this sweeping, cinematic biography secures Berenice Abbott's place in the histories of photography and modern art, while framing her incredible accomplishments as a female artist and entrepreneur. 92 photographs

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

Arts & Photography

Van Haaften, Julia

Individual Artists

W.W.Norton&Company

Published in 1980. A very nice paperback picture book of ancient Egypt and the Holy Land. Internal pages are like new. The cover shows minimal shelving wear.

Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic Photographs: Seventy-Seven Views by Francis Frith

FRITH, Francis

Photography & Video

Dover Pubns

95pp. Exhibition catalogue. Very Good w/ some rubbing on cover. Photos &amp; essays by Abbott.

Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision

Abbott, Berenice

New York Public Library

Dust jacket has a small crease at the center of the front cover on the edge. It will be pictured. There are some marks on the back of the dust jacket. Otherwise the book is in excellent condition-tight, bright, and clean. The sale of this book will benefit our small county library, however it is not an ex-library book. sgp

Berenice Abbott (Aperture Masters of Photography)

Aperture

Number nine in Aperture Masters of Photography series. Remainder mark on edge. A few bumps on cover. Essay by Julia Van Haaften. 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.

Berenice Abbott (Masters of Photography, 9)

In 1929, after eight years in Europe, photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) returned to New York City for what was planned as a short visit. During her absence, hundreds of 19th-century buildings had been razed to make way for dozens of skyscrapers. The unprecedented building boom inspired Abbott to give up her thriving Parisian portrait practice to photograph the new face of New York. Soon after her return, the Stock Market crashed and the Depression began. For five years, Abbott struggled to pursue her project, reserving Wednesdays to photograph New York City. In 1935, the Federal Art Project offered her support: it gave her a 145 monthly salary, a field assistant, research assistants, a secretary, and a car. By 1940, Abbott had completed "Changing New York," one of the monumental achievements of 20th-century photography.

Aperture Masters: Berenice Abbott (Masters of photography)

Konemann UK Ltd

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