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Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
Berenice Abbott
Photography by Edward C. Robison III.

Berenice Abbott

1898 - 1991
BiographyAbbott worked in Paris as a darkroom assistant to American Surrealist photographer Man Ray in 1923. Although she is responsible for bringing international recognition to the work of French photographer Eugène Atget, she is best known for her black and white photographs of New York in transition in the 1930s.
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