1. Berenice Abbott
By Jessica Hare

2. 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

3. 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

4. What she did
A photographer and sculptor

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

6. 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.

7. New York in 1929

8. Old Post Office

9. Flatiron Building

10. Murray Hill Hotel

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

12. Flatiron Building, 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan

13. Gunsmith and Police Department, New York

14. Firehouse

15. Gasoline Station

16. Grand Opera House

17. Bibliography