Berenice Abbott - Behavior of Waves (1960) #BereniceAbbott #photography #art #mastoart

Berenice Abbott, Cocteau in Bed with Mask, Paris, 1927
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Thirty-three years before women were allowed in #McSorley's Old Ale House, located in #NYC, #BereniceAbbott, took this photo. Much is still the same: the swinging doors, saw dust on the floor, pot-belly stove, wood tables and walls filled with old photos, newspaper clippings and art. The white crocks for drinking ale, however, are a thing of the past--lost, broken and stolen. They've been replaced by glass mugs.

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Great photo and great background story, thanks!

Berenice Abbott is such a powerful photographer: always technically solid and visually resonant, fantastic tonality with those luminous highlights, --- but never "artistic". Instead it is always the subject that quietly takes centre stage. "Straight Photography" in its purest form. Atget and Walker Evans are related but perhaps too poetic to be straight Straight? Lewis Hine might be the closest.

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Berenice Abbott - Manhattan Bridge Walkway, silver print, 1936 #BereniceAbbott #photograph #photography #photographer #NewYork #NewYorkCity

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#Cocteau in Bed with Mask, 1927.

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#Cocteau in Bed with Mask, 1927.

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“Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s to 1960s.”

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_Abbott

“Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991)[2] was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s to 1960s.”

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