Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott was an American photographer born in Springfield Ohio in 1898. Abbott studied at Ohio State University, but ended up leaving after one year to move to New York City in 1918. While in New York, she studied sculpture. In 1923, Abbott then moved to Europe where she worked for Man Ray. She discovered her talent as a photographer while working for him and ended up opening a photography studio of her own in 1925. She did many self portraits of famous individuals. Abbott then returned back to the United States in 1929, and later closed her studio in 1931 due to the Great Depression. At this time, the city was urbanizing rapidly, and she wanted to document the city while it was still growing. She set aside the portrait …show more content…
She captured the skyscrapers that were popping up all over the city, the paved roads that ran across the bridges, the streets that were populated with cars, and the sidewalks where many people walked. She showed the everyday lives of people during this time as well. The men who made a living by selling food on the street, or even Berenice photographing the man sleeping under the bridge.
I think Berenice Abbott wanted to capture the newly built skyscrapers from different angles to show how astonishing they were. There are photographs where she is shooting the image up at the building to show how monumental it is. Also, she shot images looking down from these buildings to show how far the tops of these buildings were from the ground.
Berenice captured the photographs that people today will not get to see in person but only in pictures. New York City has changed drastically since she has taken these photographs. She captured the trolleys that traveled up and down the streets of the city. The laundry that people would hang on the side of the apartment buildings to dry. Also she documented when gasoline used to be ten cents a gallon which people today will never
Berenice Abbott was an American photographer born in Springfield Ohio in 1898. Abbott studied at Ohio State University, but ended up leaving after one year to move to New York City in 1918. While in New York, she studied sculpture. In 1923, Abbott then moved to Europe where she worked for Man Ray. She discovered her talent as a photographer while working for him and ended up opening a photography studio of her own in 1925. She did many self portraits of famous individuals. Abbott then returned back to the United States in 1929, and later closed her studio in 1931 due to the Great Depression. At this time, the city was urbanizing rapidly, and she wanted to document the city while it was still growing. She set aside the portrait …show more content…
She captured the skyscrapers that were popping up all over the city, the paved roads that ran across the bridges, the streets that were populated with cars, and the sidewalks where many people walked. She showed the everyday lives of people during this time as well. The men who made a living by selling food on the street, or even Berenice photographing the man sleeping under the bridge.
I think Berenice Abbott wanted to capture the newly built skyscrapers from different angles to show how astonishing they were. There are photographs where she is shooting the image up at the building to show how monumental it is. Also, she shot images looking down from these buildings to show how far the tops of these buildings were from the ground.
Berenice captured the photographs that people today will not get to see in person but only in pictures. New York City has changed drastically since she has taken these photographs. She captured the trolleys that traveled up and down the streets of the city. The laundry that people would hang on the side of the apartment buildings to dry. Also she documented when gasoline used to be ten cents a gallon which people today will never