New York Photographer
- Bernice Abbott was
born in Springfield, Ohio, July 17, 1898
It was in Paris in the early 1920s that she adopted the French
spelling Berenice
Berenice Abbott died in retirement in Monson, Maine 1991
Besides Abbott
portraiture in Paris during the 1920s and documentation of New
York City in the 1930s her work includes modernist experimentation,
scientific photography She developed and invented new techniques
and equipment of photography and received several honorary doctorates
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