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Berenice Abbott
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American photographer (1898-1991)
OverviewAI-generated
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) was an American photographer, artist, and inventor. Born in Springfield, she died in Monson. Her work locations included New York City, Berlin, Paris, and Maine. Abbott was educated at Ohio State University, the Art Students League of New York, and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. She worked for Man Ray and participated in Documenta 6.
Her publications include *Constructing modernism*, *Berenice Abbott, the 20's and the 30's*, *Crazy New York*, *Chiaroscuro*, and *The beauty of physics*. Her works are held in the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Abbott was an unmarried partner of Elizabeth McCausland.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1898
- Died
- 1991
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Constructing modernism
- Berenice Abbott, the 20's and the 30's
- Crazy New York
- Chiaroscuro
- The beauty of physics
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1898
- Active to
- 1991
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Berenice+Abbott">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
- A Method of Computing the Effectiveness of an Insecticide
· 1925 · cited 11,050x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,261x
- Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) and Their Applications
· 2014 · cited 6,849x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,796x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.”
- “Suppose we took a thousand negatives and made a gigantic montage: a myriad-faceted picture containing the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.”
- “I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism—real life—the now.”
- “People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Berenice Alice Abbott , July 17, 1898 ( 1898-07-17 ) , Springfield, Ohio , US
- Died
- December 9, 1991 (1991-12-09) (aged 93), Monson, Maine , US
- Resting place
- New Blanchard Cemetery, Blanchard, Maine , U.S.
- Known for
- Photography
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
25 objects attributed to Berenice Abbott, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~29 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.
Super Sight, also known as the Abbott Process, is a form of macro photography developed in the early 1940s by Berenice Abbott.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Berenice Abbott” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.