Berenice Abbott, Writing Her Own History – NYTimes.com

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Berenice Abbott, Writing Her Own History

The expanded archives of the pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott detail not just the range of her eye, but also the obstacles she confronted and overcame.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/berenice-abbott-writing-her-own-history/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog

Laid out on the counter were portraits of the famous and the nameless, unpretentious wedding pictures, grandiose industrial architectural details, midcentury American scenes and close-ups of a brain, a wrench and a creepy-crawler. Next to them, a few yellowed notes. One, signed by the French writer Jean Cocteau, declared: “She exposes her delicious memory. She is a chess game between light and shadow.”

The subject? His friend, the noted 20th century photographer Berenice Abbott.