ISBN10: 3865215920, ISBN13: 9783865215925, [publisher: Steidl Photography International] Hardcover New condition, hardcover, 2 volume boxed set, slipcased, published in 2008 by Steidl Photography International. No dust jackets as issued. Publisher: With this deluxe, two-volume slipcased set, photography lovers around the world 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 1920's, when she learned photography as Man Ray's darkroom assistant and cataloged 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 1930's 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 ...
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