Tag: Berenice Abbott

  • This City Is an Overcrowded, Illogical, Inhospitable Marvel – The New York Times

    This City Is an Overcrowded, Illogical, Inhospitable Marvel – The New York Times

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    This City Is an Overcrowded, Illogical, Inhospitable Marvel Berenice Abbott captured the egomania and wanton development of New York’s streetscapes almost a century ago. The city is still at it. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/lens/berenice-abbott-portraits-of-modernity-new-york.html A generation before Kouwenhoven, Berenice Abbott captured this heathen beauty in a portfolio of photographs she called “Changing New York,” which was exhibited…

  • Berenice Abbott, Writing Her Own History – NYTimes.com

    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,…