Berenice Abbott By Jessica Hare

Life Born Springfield, Ohio Rise by mother Studied at Ohio State University Moved to Europe in 1921 Work to bring Eugene Atget’s work to Paris then New York Independent photographer in New York 1934-1968

Life (cont.) Teaching from 1934-1968 In the 1940s and 1950s writing about the science of photography Moved to Maine in 1968 Has one daughter named Bonnie

What she did A photographer and sculptor

What she worked with Black & white photographs colored photographs weren’t invented yet Digital wasn’t invented yet earthier

What made her famous When Berenice Abbott wanted to show Eugène Atget the portraits she had made of him in August 1927, she discovered that he, who had documented Paris from the 1880s until 1927, had died. Later with help of friends started the Atget Collection to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

New York in 1929

Old Post Office

Flatiron Building

Murray Hill Hotel

Fifth Avenue House, Numbers 4, 6 and 8, New York

Flatiron Building, 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan

Gunsmith and Police Department, New York

Firehouse

Gasoline Station

Grand Opera House

Bibliography http://womenshistory.about.com/od/photographers/p/berenice_abbott.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_Abbott http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo30/berenice_abbott.htm