Berenice
Abbott (1898-1991) was one of this century's greatest
photographers, and her New York City images have come
to define 1930's New York. The response to The New Press's
landmark hardcover publication of Berenice Abbott: Changing
New York was extraordinary. In addition to receiving rave
reviews, it was chosen a best book of the year by the
Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and New York Newsday,
and was featured in Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the New
York Daily News.
A Midwesterner who came to New York in 1918, Abbott moved
to Paris in 1921 and worked as Man Ray's photographic
assistant. Inspired by French photographer Atget, Abbott
returned to America in 1929 to photograph New York City.
With the financial support of the Works Progress Administration's
Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939, she was able to
realize her ambition to document a "changing New York,"
a project that remains the centerpiece of her career.
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