Birth:
July 17th, 1898
Springfield, Ohio
Death:
December 9, 1991
Monson, Maine
Education:
Ohio State University
Jobs:
In 1923, she started her first job as an apprentice for her friend, Man Ray, in Paris.
She started her own portrait studio in 1926 and took compelling pictures of many famous writers and artists of that time
Soon after, she travelled back to the U.S. where she captured the landscape as it changed throughout her time there.
She traveled all over the United States taking photos of the cities there.
She also dabbled in scientific photography and was quoted saying, "Photography fits in with the speed of our time… It is a realistic medium appropriate to a realistic and scientific age."
In 1958, she took on the project of photographing scientific phenomena for the Physical Sciences Study Committee At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She continued to take pictures for over 20 years, but the photos she took for this project were the climax of her amazing career.
Books:
1939- "Changing New York"
1949- "Greenwich Village: Yesterday and Today"
1968- "A Portrait of Maine"
1973- "New York In the Thirties"
Including many other books with contributions from Berenice Abbott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_Abbott
http://www.commercegraphics.com/ba_bio.html
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