MADRID — Berenice Abbott aimed her lens at so many 20th-century subjects that her photographs challenge us to rethink modernity itself. With this in mind, Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity at ...

After spending the Roaring Twenties partying in bohemian Paris, Berenice Abbott returned to New York City in 1929 on a mission. Armed with the archive of her mentor Eugène Atget and a drive to ...

With skyscrapers rising around her, an ambitious photographer seized the opportunity to record New York’s 1920s building boom. By Karen Rosenberg If you were an American artist or writer in the 1920s, ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Wearing an overcoat and tie, Renee Prahar slumps against a table top, her off-frame gaze — captured nearly a century ago by Berenice Abbott — still magnetically intense. Abbott’s ...

After learning photography in Paris, Berenice Abbott began documenting New York City in the early 1930s, tracking changes in its boroughs as part of an effort that would become "Changing New York." ...

In ‘So Easy to See: Berenice Abbott’s Super Sight,’ at the MIT Museum, small things make for big visual packages CAMBRIDGE — It’s been a big year for Berenice Abbott. “Berenice Abbott’s New York Album ...

The photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), daughter of a cement-maker, grew up poor in the Midwest and maintained an accent that one observer called “harsh Ohio.” One of nature’s misfits, Abbott ...

The photography of an early master of photography is collected in a comprehensive two-volume edition,Berenice Abbott by Berenice Abbott, published by Steidl. Contact us at [email protected] ...

NEW YORK — There’s a threefold complementarity to “Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929″ and “Richard Avedon: MURALS,” both of which are currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Abbott show ...

One of Berenice Abbott's most iconic images of the city, New York at Night was shot from the top of the Empire State Building on December 21, 1932, the shortest day of the year. Carefully timed right ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Berenice Abbott began her "Changing New York" ...

Mounted 11" x 14" print made in the late 1970s. There are very few prints of this image still available. Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was born and raised in Ohio. After two semesters at Ohio State ...