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Article: PORTRAIT OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER IF BERENICE ABBOTT IS OFTEN DESCRIBED AS THE DOYENNE OF AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, WHY IS IT THAT WE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT HER?
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 11, 1988
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CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Berenice Abbott still sounds like Cleveland. I should have known.
Anybody who has spent the better part of a century
passionately taking the most realistic photographs a person can
take would not put on a phony cultured accent or steam-clean the
"regionalisms" out of her voice. Never. No way. No matter how many
geniuses she hung out with in Paris.
But I don't know, or I forget or just don't think while
waiting for her to open the door to her cabin up in Monson, Maine.
The Legend is supposed to open that door -- fling
it open -- and boom forth something terrifyingly awesome in the
manner of one most often described as "the doyenne of American
photography." The words "feisty" and ...
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Article: Berenice Abbott, 93; famed for photographs of New ...
Chicago Sun-Times;
December 12, 1991 ;
428 words
...MONSON, Maine Pioneer photographer Berenice Abbott, known for her pictures of the New York skyline, has died ... Outstanding among her famous pictures are a portrait of the author James Joyce, taken in Paris in 1928, and a picture of midtown Manhattan ...
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