Berenice Abbott
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Berenice Abbott
July 17, 1898- December 9, 1991
Background Information• Born and Grew up in Ohio• Went to Europe in 1921,
and started photography.• 1935 she was the
supervisor for the Changing New York project
• She wanted to show the interaction of urban life between the diverse people of the city, the places they live and work, play and their daily activities.
• Later in her life, 1958 she photographed for physic textbooks.
Under the El at the Battery, New York
Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the
life of the times – the pulse of today.
Nightview, New York, 1932.
Imagine a world without photography,
one could only imagine
Tri-Boro Barber School, 264 Bowery
Photography can only
represent the present. Once photographed,
the subject becomes part of the past.
1935 - Greyhound and Penn Station, New York
Let us first say what photography is not. A
photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a
dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in
contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or
should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be
described in a very simple term - selectivity. -
Hot Dog Stand, West St. and North Moore, Manhattan
I didn't decide to be a
photographer; I just
happened to fall into it
Repair Shop
Resources
http://www.photoquotes.com/ShowQuotes.aspx?id=8&name=Abbott,Berenice
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/abbott.html
http://www.artsmia.org/get-the-picture/abbott/