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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Abbott first became involved with photography in 1923, when Man Ray hired her as a darkroom assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse.
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Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 - December 9, 1991) 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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Movements and Styles: Straight Photography , Dada and Surrealist Photography , Modern Photography
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