The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball.
Berenice Abbott Quotes
Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
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| Birth: | 17th July, 1898 |
| Death: | 9th December, 1991 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Photographer |
About
Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s. She shared an apartment on Greenwich Avenue with several others, including the writer Djuna Barnes, philosopher Kenneth Burke, and literary critic Malcolm Cowley. At first she pursued journalism, but soon became interested in theater and sculpture. In 1919 she nearly died in the influenza pandemic.
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