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Berenice Abbott – Witnessing New York’s Metamorphosis “Photography,” said Berenice Abbott, “can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.” Born in America in 1898, Abbott decided not to pursue picturesque images in her work, but to document, to show the subject exactly as it… Read more
Intro Bio Exhibitions
1898 | Born in Springfield Ohio, USA |
Studies of Journalism at Ohio State University | |
1918 | Moved to Greenwich Village, New York together with Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley |
1921 | Begin of studies of sculpting at St. Emile Bourdelle in Paris, France |
1923-1925 | Assistant of Man Ray in Paris Montparnasse, France |
Acquaintance with Eugène Atget | |
First studio in Paris, France | |
Studies of Photography in Berlin, Germany | |
1927 | Return to Paris and opening of the second studio |
1929 | Return to the USA and work as freelance photo reporter |
1934-1958 | Lecturer for Photography at the New School for Social Research in New York, USA |
1935-1939 | Project “Changing New York” |
1940-1960 | Scientific photo documentation of physical phenomena |
1970 | First retrospective in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
1991 | Died at the age of 93 in Monson, USA |
1989 | International Center of Photography's Lifetime Achievement Award, New York, NY, USA |
2010-11 | Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography im Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
Gallery „Au Sacre du Printemps“, Paris, France | |
1990-91 | Berenice Abbott photographer: a modern vision, Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, Japan |
1982-83 | Atelier Man Ray: Berenice Abbott, Jacques-Andre Boiffard, Bill Brandt, Lee Miller, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
1982 | Berenice Abbott: the 20's and the 30's im National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C., USA |
1970-71 | Berenice Abbott: Photographs vom 10. Dezember 1970 bis zum 10. März 1971 im Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
1939 | Art in Our Time, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
1928 | Premier Salon Independent de la Photographie, Paris, France |
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