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Abbott, Berenice

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The American photographer Berenice Abbott, b. Springfield, Ohio, July 17, 1898, d. Dec. 9, 1991, began her career as assistant to the surrealist artist Man RAY. In the 1930s her series of documentary photographs of New York city received wide acclaim. Abbott also rediscovered and brought to public attention the work of the early 20th-century French photographer Eugene ATGET. Her books include Changing New York (1939; repr. as New York in the 30's, 1973), Greenwich Village: Today and Yesterday (1949), Photographs (1970), and The world of Atget (1964; repr. 1979).

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