Berenice Alice Abbott (1898 to 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, her New York City photographs of architecture and urban design in the 1930s, and her science interpretation photography of the 1940s to 1960s. She developed Super Sight, also known as the Abbott Process, a form of macro photography, in the early 1940s.
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Berenice Alice Abbott 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.
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Berenice Alice Abbott (1898 to 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, her New York City photographs of architecture and urban design in the 1930s, and her science interpretation photography of the 1940s to 1960s.
Associated With: Eugene Atget, Berenice Abbott article, Atget section
She acquired the prints and negatives remaining in Eugene Atget's studio at his death in 1927.
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