Berenice Abbott, Photographer : An Independent Vision
by Sullivan, George
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- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618440267
- ISBN 13
- 9780618440269
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One theme repeatedly crops up in the life and career of Berenice Abbott: her refusal to be defined by other people’s expectations. Spurning traditional roles for women of her era, she lived a bohemian life among other artists in New York’s Greenwich Village and Paris, and embarked upon a career in what was then a male-dominated field. Decades later, her photographs are celebrated as some of the most authentic images of a city ever captured on film, and she is remembered not only as a master American photographer but also as a teacher, writer, inventor, and photographic archivist. Veteran nonfiction writer George Sullivan draws on his vast knowledge of the photographic world to chronicle Berenice Abbott’s life and career, and to present a fascinating social portrait of the artistic community of New York in the early half of the 20th century. Interviews with her contemporaries and high- quality reproductions of some of her most famous photographs provide an illuminating image of this determined, spirited woman who changed the face of American photography. Bibliography, index.
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- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GRP88691699
- Title
- Berenice Abbott, Photographer : An Independent Vision
- Author
- Sullivan, George
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0618440267
- ISBN 13
- 9780618440269
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2006-06-12
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