Berenice Abbott

ABBOTT, Berenice (Springfield, 1898 - Monson, 1991)

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ISBN 10: 3865215920 ISBN 13: 9783865215925

Published by Gottingen, Steidl,, Gottingen, 2008

Condition: Perfetto (Mint) Hardcover

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2 Volumi. Vol. I: Portraits, The American Scene, Science. Testo introduttivo di Ron Kurt. Testo di Hank O'Neal. Fotografie in bianco e nero e didascalie di Berenice Abbott. Vol. II: New York. Fotografie in bianco e nero e didascalie di Berenice Abbott. Bibliografia / 2 volumes, in a cloth slipcase. Volume I with 118 black and white images, includes essays by Ron Kurtz and Hank O'Neal. Volume II with 151 black and white images . 4to (cm 32x30,5). pp. 264 - 316. . Perfetto (Mint). . Prima edizione (First Edition). . The new two-volume edition of Abbott presents a lot of photos scanned and digitally rendered by the publisher Gerhard Steidl at the request of Ron Kurtz, an American industrialist and photography collector who bought Abbott's archive from her in 1985. The volumes are divided by subject: the first contains her portraits, including the Paris portraits (1920); her pictures made on journeys across the country, between 1935 and 1983; and her scientific pictures, many of which were made at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These are technical illustrations of different scientific phenomena. They are reminiscent of Man Ray's "rayograms", photographs of simple objects against a black background, which he would move in the process to make a ghostly, abstract shape. Volume two is devoted to Changing New York. It was a hugely ambitious and physically dangerous undertaking that needed a good deal of planning and organisation: how to find the right vantage point, how to carry an enormous plate up dozens of floors, how to calculate the wind resistance, the level of light etc. The importance of the correct vantage point was not only for distance but to accentuate the tight layering and juxtaposition of buildings in the city; to show the difference in tempo between the older low-rise blocks and the skyscrapers.La nuova edizione in due volumi della monografia di Abbott presenta fotografie, scannerizzate e digitalizzate dall'editore Gerhard Steidl su richiesta di Ron Kurtz, un industriale americano e collezionista di fotografia che acquistò l'archivio di Abbott nel 1985.I volumi sono divisi per soggetto: il primo contiene i suoi ritratti, compresi quelli di Parigi degli anni '20; i viaggi attraverso gli Stati Uniti, tra il 1935 e il 1983; le sue foto scientifiche, molte delle quali realizzate al Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tra la fine degli anni '50 e l'inizio degli anni '60. Si tratta di illustrazioni tecniche di diversi fenomeni scientifici. Ricordano i rayograms di Man Ray, fotografie di oggetti semplici su uno sfondo nero, che lei spostava nel processo per creare una forma spettrale e astratta.Il secondo volume è dedicato a una New York “in cambiamento” Era un'impresa enormemente ambiziosa e fisicamente pericolosa che richiedeva una buona dose di pianificazione e organizzazione: come trovare il giusto punto di osservazione, trascinare un'enorme macchina fotografica a lastre per decine di piani, come calcolare la resistenza al vento, il livello di luce etc. Il punto di vista corretto era importante soprattutto per sottolineare la stratificazione e giustapposizione degli edifici in città, il contrasto fra i vecchi edifici e i nuovi grattacieli. Seller Inventory # bc_226307

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Title: Berenice Abbott

Publisher: Gottingen, Steidl,, Gottingen

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Perfetto (Mint)

Edition: Prima edizione (First Edition).

Book Type: Book

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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 raisonn�, this is the definitive publication on the life work of one of the masters of the photographic medium.
Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1898. After graduating from Ohio State University she moved to New York to study journalism, but eventually decided to focus on sculpture and painting. In 1921 she moved to Paris, returning to the United States in 1929 to embark on a project photographing New York. These photographs first appeared in the seminal exhibition Changing New York at the Museum of the City in 1937. An equally monumental book of Changing New York was published in 1939. Abbott also published a Guide to Better Photography (1941), and in the late 1950s began to take photographs illustrating the laws of physics. Berenice Abbott died in Monson, Maine in 1991.

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