Gottingen, Germany: Steidl Photography International, Date: 2008. First American Edition . Hardcover (in Slip Case). Very Good. (548 pages, more than 500 plates.). As-new, in publisher’s original shrink-wrap. A definitive two-volume slipcased retrospective. 2008. Steidl Photography International ISBN 3865215920 9783865215925 [US]

Berenice Abbott, Hank O'Neal: Berenice Abbott: 1st ed., Steidl, Date: 2008. Fine Condition, Surface wear and tears to front top and bottom edge of slipcase only 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 ...