(July, 17, 1898, Springfield, Ohio – dECEMBER, 9, 1991, Monson, Maine)

Berenice Abbott was an American photographer.

She left his homeland in 1918 to study in the cities of New York, Paris, and Berlin. In Paris he became an assistant to Man Ray and Eugéne Atget. In 1925 he set up his own studio and made portraits of Parisian expatriates, artists, writers, and collectors.

Abbot rescued and cataloged prints and negatives of Atget after his death. In the 1930s, he photographed New York’s neighborhoods for the WPA Federal Art Project, documenting its changing architecture, and many of those photographs were published in Changing New York in 1939.

In 1935 Berenice moved to a loft in Greenwich Village with art critic Elizabeth McCausland with whom she lived until McCausland’s death in 1965. McCausland was a great supporter of her career, writing articles in various publications on Berenice’s work or even creating the title for the 1939 work Changing New York.