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Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991)
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Berenice Abbott
Bread Store (Zito's) February 1937 1937
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Berenice Abbott
Department of Docks and Police Station 1936
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Berenice Abbott
Fifth Avenue Houses
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Berenice Abbott
Flatiron Building 1938
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Berenice Abbott
New York at Night
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Berenice Abbott
Rockefeller Center 1932
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Biography |
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1898 |
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Born in Springfield, Ohio |
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1923 |
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Man Ray hires Abbott as a darkroom assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse, France |
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1929 |
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Abbott moves to New York City and begins chronicling the architecture and urban life of the 1930s |
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1970 |
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Abbott's first major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1989 |
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She recieves the International Center of Photography's Lifetime Achievement Award |
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1991 |
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Died in Monson, Maine |
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Exhibitions |
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2006 |
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"Speaking with Hands," Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
"American Icons," Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
"7 Documentarians," David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI |
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2005 |
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"Boîte à conserves," Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany
"Europe in Art: A HVB Group Project," National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Hungary |
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2004 |
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"Duality/Dialectic," Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT
"Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
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2003 |
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"Berenice Abbott's Circle: New York/Paris," Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
"Enchanted Evening," Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
"Vintage Photographs of NYC from the 1930s and 1940s," Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA
"Künstlerphotographien: Berühmte Photographen portraitieren berühmte Künstler," Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany
"Une autre modernité: La question de la ville, 1915-1950," Musée dart contemporain de Montréal, Quebec |
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2002 |
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"Shopping," Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
"New York, New York: The City in Photographs," Staley Wise, New York, NY
"Star Spangled Spirit," Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY |
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2001 |
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"Vital Form: American Art in the Anatomic Age, 1940-1960," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
"The Photograph and the American Dream: The Stephen White Collection II," Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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2000 |
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"Portfoglio: Photographs of a Century," Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
"Photography in Boston: 1955-1985," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
"150 Years of Photography," Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT
"Desiring Eye: Retrospective of photography from Moderna Museet," Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania
"Lécole de Paris, 1904-1929: La part de l'Autre," Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAM/ARC), Paris, France |
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1999 |
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"Berenice Abbott: Changing New York," Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Duesseldorf, Germany |
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1998 |
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"Changing New York," Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
"Images from the Machine Age," International Center of Photography, New York, NY |
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1998 |
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"Photographs by Berenice Abbott," Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
"Spirit of the Metropolis: Berenice Abbott's New York," Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT |
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1997 |
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Tower Gallery, Yokahama, Japan |
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1996 |
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Retrospective, International Center for Photography, New York, NY |
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1995 |
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Photo Poche #61, Hank O'Neal, Paris, France |
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1994 |
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FNAC Galeries Photo, Paris, France |
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1991 |
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Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME |
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1990 |
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Group Exhibition, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Group Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, DC |
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1989 |
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"A Modern Vision," New York Public Library New York, NY |
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1988 |
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Aperture #9, Julia Van Haafte, New York, NY |
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1986 |
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Retrospective, Ikona Gallery Venice, Italy |
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1985 |
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Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
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1982 |
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Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC |
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1981 |
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Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY |
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1973 |
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New York in the Thirties, Elizabeth McCaus, New York, NY |
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1970 |
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"Berenice Abbott Photographs Retrospective," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1969 |
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"The Attractive Universe," E.G. Valens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. |
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1968 |
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"A Portrait of Maine," E.G. Valens |
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1953 |
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San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA |
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1939 |
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"Changing New York," Elizabeth McCaus, New York, NY |
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1937 |
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"Changing New York," Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY |
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1928 |
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First Salon of Independent Photographers, Paris, France |
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1926 |
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Au Sacre du Printemps, Paris, France |
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Literature |
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1973 |
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Changing New York. New York: Dutton, 1939. With text by Elizabeth McCausland. Reprint: New York in the Thirties, as Photographed by Berenice Abbott (New York: Dover). |
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1968 |
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A Portrait of Maine. Text by Chenoweth Hall. (New York: Macmillan) |
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1949 |
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Greenwich Village: Yesterday and Today. With text by Henry Wysham Lanier (New York: Harper). |
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