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Berenice Abbott 1898-1991

Media 175 Principles of Digital Photography Photographer: Berenice Abbott Presented by Michael Sofie. Berenice Abbott 1898-1991. “Photography can never grow up and stand on its own two feet if it imitates primarily some other medium. It has to walk alone. It has to be itself.” Berenice Abbott.

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Berenice Abbott 1898-1991

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  1. Media 175Principles of Digital PhotographyPhotographer: Berenice AbbottPresented by Michael Sofie

  2. Berenice Abbott1898-1991

  3. “Photography can never grow up and stand on its own two feet if it imitates primarily some other medium. It has to walk alone. It has to be itself.” Berenice Abbott Harlem Street: Eighth Avenue and West 140th Street, March 2, 1938 photograph by Berenice Abbott

  4. Althought Abbott was a successful portraiture photographerin Paris, she found work during the Depression of the 1930s working for the Federal Art Project (FAP), making a photo record of New York City. Her “Changing New York” project , documenting the cityscapes, neighborhoods, and people would bring her the most recognition. • Henry Street • photograph by Berenice Abbott

  5. Broadway and Exchange Place • photograph by Berenice Abbott

  6. Nightview was photographed in 1932 from the top of the Empire State Building. It has been recognized as her most enduring photograph. • photograph by Berenice Abbott

  7. Seventh Avenue looking South from 35th Street photograph by Berenice Abbott

  8. Abbott’s later projects would take her from Maine to Florida in the 1950s, chronicling life along Highway US 1, photographing small towns and the growing automobile-related architecture. • photograph by Berenice Abbott

  9. Maine: Boy on a Bicycle • Photograph by Berenice Abbott

  10. Resources http://jessica.teicher.googlepages.com/ • http://www.mcny.org/museum-collections/berenice-abbott/a020.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Abbott http://www.commercegraphics.com/ba.html http://www.andrewward.com/berenice_abbott_photo_Nightview_new_york manhattan_1932_photogravure.htm www.galeriehoffman.com/.../NY%20%2769snaps.jpg cs.nga.gov.au/IMAGES/MED/66903.JPG www.parsonssummerdt.com/.../berenice-abbott3.jpg http://www.mcny.org/museum-collections/berenice-abbott/abbott.htm McEuen, Melissa A. (2000). Seeing America: women photographers between the wars. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.

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