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Berenice Abbott

(American, 1898–1991)

Berenice Abbott

104 Willow Street, Brooklyn Heights, 1936

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Berenice Abbott

Exchange Place, 1936

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Nightview, New York (New York at Night), 1932

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Pennsylvannia Station, 1936

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Walkway, Manhattan Bridge, New York, 1936

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Jean Cocteau with Gun, created: 1926–printed: 1981

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Princess Eugenie Murat, created: 1929–printed: 1981

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James Joyce, created: 1928–printed: 1981

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Andre Gide, created: 1927–printed: 1981

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Janet Flanner, created: 1928–printed: 1981

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Jean Cocteau’s Hands, created: 1927–printed: 1981

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Eugene Atget, created: 1927–printed: 1981

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Mrs. Raymond Massey, ca. 1920–printed: 1981

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Princess Marthe Bibesco, created: 1928–printed: 1981

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Solita Solano, created: 1929–printed: 1981

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Portrait of Edward Hopper, 1930

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Berenice Abbott

Work Title: Waterfront, South Street, Manhattan, 1935, 1935

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Blossom Restaurant; 103 Bowery, 1935–printed: 1976

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Experiment of Lens Formation With Many Mirrors, 1958–1961

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Berenice Abbott

Factory Warehouse, Brooklyn

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Jacob Heymann Butcher Shop, New York City, 1938

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Hardware Store, 316-318 Bowery, Manhattan, 1938

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Newsstand, East 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan, 1935

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Berenice Abbott

Under the El at the Battery , 1936

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Berenice Abbott

Fifth Avenue at 8th Street, 1936

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Biography

Timeline

1898: Born in Springfield, OH
1923: Hired by Man Ray as a darkroom assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse, France
1929: Moved to New York and began chronicling the architecture and urban life of the 1930s
1970: Her first major retrospective exhibition, held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1989: Received the International Center of Photography's Lifetime Achievement Award, New York, USA
1991: Died in Monson, ME

Exhibitions

2006: Speaking with Hands, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
American Icons, Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, Canada
7 Documentarians, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, USA
2005: Boîte à conserves, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany
Europe in Art: A HVB Group Project, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Hungary
2004: Duality/Dialectic, Davison Art Center, Middletown, USA
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2003: Berenice Abbott's Circle: New York/Paris, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Enchanted Evening, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
Vintage Photographs of NYC from the 1930s and 1940s, Lee Gallery, Winchester, USA
Künstlerphotographien: Berühmte Photographen portraitieren berühmte Künstler, Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany
Une autre modernité: La question de la ville, 1915-1950, Musée dart contemporain de Montréal, Canada
2002: Shopping, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
New York, New York: The City in Photographs, Staley-Wise, New York, USA
Star Spangled Spirit, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, USA
2001: Vital Form: American Art in the Anatomic Age, 1940-1960, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, USA
The Photograph and the American Dream: The Stephen White Collection II, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000: Portfoglio: Photographs of a Century, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Photography in Boston: 1955-1985, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, USA
150 Years of Photography, Davison Art Center, Middletown, USA
Desiring Eye: Retrospective of photography from Moderna Museet, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
L'école de Paris, 1904-1929: La part de l'Autre, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1999: Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
1998: Changing New York, Museum of the City of New York, New York, USA
Images from the Machine Age, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Photographs by Berenice Abbott, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA
Spirit of the Metropolis: Berenice Abbott's New York, Davison Art Center, Middletown, USA
1997: Tower Gallery, Yokahama, Japan
1996: Retrospective, International Center for Photography, New York, USA
1995: Photo Poche #61, Hank O'Neal, Paris, France
1994: FNAC Galeries Photo, Paris, France
1991: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA
1990: Group Exhibition, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Group Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1989: A Modern Vision, New York Public Library, New York, USA
1988: Aperture #9, Julia Van Haafte, New York, USA
1986: Retrospective, Ikona Gallery, Venice, Italy
1985: Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
1982: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1981: Museum of the City of New York, New York, USA
1973: New York in the Thirties, Elizabeth McCaus, New York, USA
1970: Berenice Abbott Photographs Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1969: The Attractive Universe, E.G. Valens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1968: A Portrait of Maine, E.G. Valens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1953: San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA
1939: Changing New York, Elizabeth McCaus, New York, USA
1937: Changing New York, Museum of the City of New York, New York, USA
1928: First Salon of Independent Photographers, Paris, France
1926: Au Sacre du Printemps, Paris, France

Literature

1973: McCausland, Elizabeth. Changing New York. New York: Dutton, 1939. Reprint: New York in the Thirties, as Photographed by Berenice Abbott (New York: Dover).
1968: Hall, Chenoweth. A Portrait of Maine. (New York: Macmillan)
1949: Wysham, Henry. Greenwich Village: Yesterday and Today. (New York: Harper).

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Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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