CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/15/2021

'Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity' is a Women's History Month Staff Pick

"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.