Berenice abbott

Avant-garde artist Berenice Abbott is famous for her shots of New York skyscrapers – but she also developed an all-new kind of scientific photography

Abbott aimed her lens at so many 20th-century subjects that her photographs challenge us to rethink modernity itself.

On the symptoms and spread of Newyorkitis.

Berenice Abbott. New York at Night. c. 1933. Gelatin silver print. 12 7/8 × 10 9/16" (32.7 × 26.9 cm). Purchase. 40.1964. © 2024 Estate of Berenice Abbott. Photography

Berenice Abbott. An Industrial Designer's Window, Bleecker Street. 1948. Gelatin silver print. 14 1/2 × 10 7/8" (36.9 × 27.7 cm). Purchase. 88.1959. © 2024 Estate of Berenice Abbott. Photography

Berenice Abbott. Hands of Jean Cocteau. 1927. Gelatin silver print. 6 1/2 × 8 11/16" (16.5 × 22 cm). Purchase. 2.1946. © 2024 Estate of Berenice Abbott. Photography

115 Jay Street Brooklyn New York, 1936 Portraits Cocteau’s Hands, Paris, 1927 John V. Lacey, “Birdsmith”, New York, 1948 Solita Solano, Paris, 1926 Cocteau in Bed with Mask, Paris, 1927 Cocteau with Gun, Paris, 1926 New York Bowery Bum, New York, c. 1932 Fifth Avenue Coach Company, New York, 1932…

From its earliest settlers in the 17th century through its bohemian heyday in the late 19th and 20th centuries right up to today, pioneering women have called Greenwich Village home.

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bouncing ball; motion study; science; time lapse