| | | | FUNDACIóN MAPFREBerenice Abbott: Portraits of ModernityText by Estrella de Diego, Gary Van Zante, Cara Hoffman.
 A superbly printed, definitive volume on the beloved American modernist photographerThis handsome publication presents legendary American photographer Berenice Abbott’s work in three categories: her portraits, photographs of the city and scientific photographs. The opening section presents Abbott’s portraits of mold-breaking individuals who changed the world from the mid-1920s onward such as Djuna Barnes, the New Yorker's Janet Flanner, Jean Cocteau and James Joyce.
The second part offers a dazzling portrait of New York which takes into account Abbott’s relations with and her fascination for the work of Eugčne Atget by including an introductory group of his photographs, which she printed from his negatives.
The third and final section focuses on Abbott’s scientific photographs, which she started to produce in the late 1940s.
Berenice Abbott was undoubtedly one of the defining portraitists of New York. Shops, people, bridges, streets, interiors, famous buildings under construction seen from outside or from above (the same ones that are visible today from the highway that runs round Manhattan) together make up this portrait.
Berenice Abbott (1891–1991) was born in Springfield, Ohio. She began her photography career in 1923, as Man Ray's darkroom assistant. Her work is collected in some of the most prestigious museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity.'PRAISE AND REVIEWSNew York Times John Leland Berenice Abbott captured the egomania and wanton development of New York’s streetscapes almost a century ago. New York Times John Leland Abbott's phoros take the grid out of the grid. Symmetries give way to random architectural jostling. Buildings seem to be leaning on or over one another, slicing off at odd angles. It's an unstable cityscape because it's still growing, indifferent to the comforts of the people below. Pride Source Presented by Fundación MAPFRE, the publication offers a journey through Abbott’s career in the form of almost 200 photographs. 1stdibs Marisa Bartolucci Abbott has never been heralded as one of the defining giants of 20th-century photography. [...] The new monograph Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity may well change that. L'Oeil de la Photographie This handsome publication presents legendary American photographer Berenice Abbott’s work in three categories: her portraits, photographs of the city and scientific photographs. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/15/2021 "Self Portrait—Distortion" (c. 1930) is reproduced from Fundacíon Mapfre's superb duotone-printed Berenice Abbott monograph, Portraits of Modernity. Collecting Abbott's portraits of the most exciting, provocative and often gender-bending intellectuals of her time, her fearless photographs of all corners of 1930s New York and her documentation of scientific phenomena, including experiments with plants, gears, lenses, pendula, magnets and more, this 264-page clothbound volume is the perfect overview. It's also a glimpse into the pioneering spirit of the early twentieth century avant-garde and its gender-defiant underground. continue to blogFROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/3/2019 Cultured penicillin, radio tubes, a bouncing ball, mold growing on cheese, soap bubbles, a pendulum in motion and light passing through a prism are just a few of the "scientific" phenomena and objects that Berenice Abbott photographed from the 1930s through the 1960s. Many of these images capturing "the basic laws of physics" were included in the 1960 exhibition The Image of Physics in Manchester, New Hampshire, which is covered extensively in one section of Fondación Mapfre's gorgeous new overview. If photographic "interpretation is profound and true," Abbott said, "it strikes home. Then the picture is significant. It communicates to us." Featured image is "Lamps 1950s (RCA Research Laboratory, Camden, NJ)" (c. 1950s). continue to blog | |  | STEIDLISBN: 9783958297012
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