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Biography
1898
Born in Springfield, Ohio
1923
Man Ray hires Abbott as a darkroom assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse, France
1929
Abbott moves to New York City and begins chronicling the architecture and urban life of the 1930s
1970
Abbott's first major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1989
She received the International Center of Photography's Lifetime Achievement Award
1991
Died in Monson, Maine
Exhibitions
2006
"Speaking with Hands," Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany "American Icons," Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, Ontario "7 Documentarians," David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
2005
"Boîte à conserves," Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany "Europe in Art: A HVB Group Project," National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Hungary
2004
"Duality/Dialectic," Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT "Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2003
"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
2002
"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
2001
"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
2000
"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
1999
"Berenice Abbott: Changing New York," Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Duesseldorf, Germany
1998
"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
1998
"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
1997
Tower Gallery, Yokahama, Japan
1996
Retrospective, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
1995
Photo Poche #61, Hank O'Neal, Paris, France
1994
FNAC Galeries Photo, Paris, France
1991
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1990
Group Exhibition, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Group Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, DC
1989
"A Modern Vision," New York Public Library New York, NY
1988
Aperture #9, Julia Van Haafte, New York, NY
1986
Retrospective, Ikona Gallery Venice, Italy
1985
Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1982
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1981
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
1973
New York in the Thirties, Elizabeth McCaus, New York, NY
1970
"Berenice Abbott Photographs Retrospective," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1969
"The Attractive Universe," E.G. Valens, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
1968
"A Portrait of Maine," E.G. Valens
1953
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1939
"Changing New York," Elizabeth McCaus, New York, NY
1937
"Changing New York," Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
1928
First Salon of Independent Photographers, Paris, France
1926
Au Sacre du Printemps, Paris, France
Literature
1973
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).
1968
A Portrait of Maine. Text by Chenoweth Hall. (New York: Macmillan)
1949
Greenwich Village: Yesterday and Today. With text by Henry Wysham Lanier (New York: Harper).
