Berenice Abbott, portraits parisiens

2016-10-03

Author :
Release : 2016-10-03
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 536/5 ( reviews)

Book Synopsis Berenice Abbott, portraits parisiens by :

Download or read book Berenice Abbott, portraits parisiens written by . This book was released on 2016-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berenice Abbott en 1925 photographiait ses premiers portraits sur le balcon du studio de Man Ray à Paris. Soixante-cinq ans plus tard, en 1990, elle prenait son dernier portrait dans un bateau sur le lac d'Hebron dans le Maine, à quelques centaines de mètres du chalet dans lequel elle a passé ses dernières années. Abbott réalisait généralement ses portraits parisiens dans son propre studio, d'abord 44, rue du Bac, puis 18, rue Servandoni, mais aussi parfois sur place, au domicile du client, comme son premier portrait de James Joyce. En juin 1926, Jan Sliwinski exposa dans sa galerie des photographies de James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Sylvia Beach, Marie Laurencin ou André Gide parmi tant d'autres. Les hommes et les femmes photographiés par Berenice Abbott étaient liés - socialement, intellectuellement, artistiquement ou sentimentalement. Elle ne photographiait pas des inconnus, à la différence d'Atget, qu'elle contribua à sortir de l'ombre. Ce livre, conçu par Hank O'Neal, regroupe plus de cent portraits, dont la plupart sont inédits. Les plaques de verre brutes, telles qu'elles sortaient de sa chambre noire, sont présentées avec le recadrage qu'elle souhaitait. Portraits parisiens est un livre rare au service d'une photographe essentielle dans l'art du portrait, de l'architecture ou de la photographie scientifique.

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

2018-04-10 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Julia Van Haaften
Release : 2018-04-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 797/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography by : Julia Van Haaften

Download or read book Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography written by Julia Van Haaften. This book was released on 2018-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comprehensive biography of the iconic twentieth-century American photographer Berenice Abbott, a trailblazing documentary modernist, author, and inventor. Berenice Abbott is to American photography as Georgia O’Keeffe is to painting or Willa Cather to letters. She was a photographer of astounding innovation and artistry, a pioneer in both her personal and professional life. Abbott’s sixty-year career established her not only as a master of American photography, but also as a teacher, writer, archivist, and inventor. Famously reticent in public, Abbott’s fascinating life has long remained a mystery—until now. In Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography, author, archivist, and curator Julia Van Haaften brings this iconic public figure to life alongside outlandish, familiar characters from artist Man Ray to cybernetics founder Norbert Wiener. A teenage rebel from Ohio, Abbott escaped first to Greenwich Village and then to Paris—photographing, in Sylvia Beach’s words, "everyone who was anyone." As the Roaring Twenties ended, Abbott returned to New York, where she soon fell in love with art critic Elizabeth McCausland, with whom she would spend thirty years. In the 1930s, Abbott began her best-known work, Changing New York, in which she fearlessly documented the city’s metamorphosis. When warned by an older male supervisor that "nice girls" avoid the Bowery—then Manhattan’s skid row—Abbott shot back, "I’m not a nice girl. I’m a photographer…I go anywhere." This bold, feminist attitude would characterize all Abbott’s accomplishments, including imaging techniques she invented in her influential, space race–era science photography and her tenure as The New School’s first photography teacher. With more than ninety stunning photos, this sweeping, cinematic biography secures Berenice Abbott’s place in the histories of photography and modern art, while framing her incredible accomplishments as a female artist and entrepreneur.

Documenting Science

2012 Art and science

Author : Berenice Abbott
Release : 2012
Genre : Art and science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Documenting Science by : Berenice Abbott

Download or read book Documenting Science written by Berenice Abbott. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s. Abbott's style of straight photography helped her make important contributions to scientific photography, as shown in this book.

Photographs

1990 Photography

Author : Berenice Abbott
Release : 1990
Genre : Photography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Photographs by : Berenice Abbott

Download or read book Photographs written by Berenice Abbott. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Berenice Abbott

2016 Portrait photography

Author : Berenice Abbott
Release : 2016
Genre : Portrait photography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 147/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Berenice Abbott by : Berenice Abbott

Download or read book Berenice Abbott written by Berenice Abbott. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one in a series of books to be published by Steidl that will explore Berenice Abbott's exceptional body of work. Abbott began her photographic career in 1925, taking portraits in Paris of some the most celebrated artists and writers of the day including Marie Laurencin, Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim and James Joyce. Within a year her work was exhibited and acclaimed. Paris Portraits 1925-30 features the clear, honest results of Abbott's earliest photographic project and illustrates the philosophy of all her subsequent work. For this landmark book, 115 portraits of 83 subjects have been scanned from the original glass negatives, the full negatives have been printed, and a die-cut overleaf presents each portrait incorporating Abbott's cropping instructions. Berenice Abbott, born in Springfield, Ohio in 1898, was a dominant figure in twentieth-century American photography. Abbott moved to Paris from New York in 1921, and in 1923, after many false starts, was hired by her friend Man Ray. He was looking for an assistant who knew nothing about photography whom he could teach. Abbott learned quickly and within a year was taking her own photographs. Her first solo exhibition in 1926 was a success, and for the next 65 years Abbott mastered a wide range of subjects. Highlights of Abbott's career include the monumental project Changing New York (1935-1938), photographing rural America including US Route 1 from Maine to Florida, photographically interpreting scientific and natural phenomena, establishing the reputation of Eugène Atget, and founding the first university photography program in the United States. Steidl published the two-volume retrospective Berenice Abbott (2008), and Documenting Science (2011).

Popular eBooks

Berenice Abbott, portraits parisiens

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

Documenting Science

Photographs

Berenice Abbott

You may also like...