Julia Van Haaften Berenice Abbott

a life in photography

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is to American photography what Georgia O'Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. Abbott's sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography but also as a teacher, writer, archivist, and inventor. A teenage rebel from Ohio, Abbott escaped to Paris - photographing, in Sylvia Beach's words, everyone who was anyone - before returning to New York as the Roaring Twenties ended. She soon fell in love with art critic Elizabeth McCausland,...

Engels | 634 pagina's | W.W. Norton & Company, New York | 2018

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