Berenice Abbott Biography
BERENICE ABBOTT (Springfield, 17 July 1898 – Monson, 9 December 1991) She began her studies at the Ohio State University, which she however dropped out at the beginning of 1918. In the same year she moved to Greenwich Village in New York, where she met the writer Djuna Barnes, the philosopher Kenneth Burke, and the literary critic Malcolm Cowley. In 1921 she then went to Europe where she studied sculpture and published poems in the experimental literature magazine "Transition". Abbott's interest in photography was born in 1923, when she was hired by Man Ray as a darkroom assistant in his Montparnasse studio . Berenice Abbott focused, with extreme attention to detail, on people from the artistic and literary world, expatriates and people passing through the city. His photography consisted of showcasing the rise of development in technology and society, documenting the skyline of New York. In 1958 he produced a series of photographs for a high school physics textbook, and in 1947 he also started the "House of Photography", to promote and sell some of his inventions. Benice Abbott was part of the straight photography movement, which emphasized the importance of having photographs that were not manipulated either in terms of the subject or the development process.
