Berenice Abbott
by O'Neal, Hank
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket (As Issued)
- ISBN 10
- 3865215920
- ISBN 13
- 9783865215925
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Steidl Photography International, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket (As Issued). 2 volumes, complete as issued. A fair set in publisher's slipcase (slipcase stained and cracked; upper corner of cover of Vol. II has some staining and wear, which also extends to first 20 pages of text at upper corners). With this deluxe, two-volume slipcased set, photography lovers around the world will at last have a thorough retrospective of the work of Berenice Abbott. Portraitist, Atget editor, chronicler of Paris and New York and a giant of twentieth-century photography, Abbott has long gone without a publication encompassing all of the principal strands of her practice. Included herein is her early work as a portrait photographer in Paris during the 1920s, when she learned photography as Man Ray's darkroom assistant and catalogued the city's artistic life with portraits of James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim, Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Sylvia Beach, Bryher and Eugene Atget. (During this time, she adopted the French spelling of her first name, 'Berenice,' at the suggestion of Djuna Barnes.) Her New York photographs of the 1930s are testament to the architectural and social transformations within the city and throughout the United States in that decade. In this period Abbott also began her editorial work on Atget, producing the 1930 book Atget, Photographe de Paris-and her labors on his behalf would continue until the sale of her archive to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1968. Lesser-known bodies of Abbott's work, such as a road trip from Florida to Maine on Route 1 in the summer of 1954, are also well represented. A final series comprises her scientific images from the 1950s-photographs of physical phenomena for the Physical Science Study Committee of Educational Services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Effectively a catalogue raisonné, this is the definitive publication on the life work of one of the masters of the photographic medium.
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- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 611751
- Title
- Berenice Abbott
- Author
- O'Neal, Hank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket (As Issued)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 3865215920
- ISBN 13
- 9783865215925
- Publisher
- Steidl Photography International
- Date Published
- 2008
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- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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