Berenice abbott

Berenice Abbott. New York at Night. c. 1933. Gelatin silver print. 12 7/8 × 10 9/16" (32.7 × 26.9 cm). Purchase. 40.1964. © 2024 Estate of Berenice Abbott. Photography

Avant-garde artist Berenice Abbott is famous for her shots of New York skyscrapers – but she also developed an all-new kind of scientific photography

On the symptoms and spread of Newyorkitis.

Bid now on Invaluable: Berenice Abbott (1898-1991); Flatiron Building, New York City; from Bonhams on December 17, 2019, 10:00 AM EST.

The photographs in Berenice Abbott’s Paris Portraits 1925-1930 document how international the community of modernists was between the wars, and are evidence of Abbott’s first experiments with lighting, angles, and equipment. The portraits’ sparseness only amplifies the ambition they contain—of both subjects and photographer. One of the pleasures of a great portrait is the unending present exposure it offers us, as if the sitter is just about to reveal something. Abbott’s client list is…

Berenice Abbott. Cedar Street from William Street, Manhattan. March 26, 1936. Gelatin silver print. 9 1/2 × 7 1/4" (24.1 × 18.4 cm). Thomas Walther Collection. Abbott-Levy Collection funds, by exchange. 1601.2001. © 2024 Estate of Berenice Abbott. Photography

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) … self-portrait … 1930 …

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bouncing ball; motion study; science; time lapse

Photographer Berenice Abbott brought motion into the still frame, and brings the visuality of movement to a new show at MIT.