"Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past" Berenice Abbott
The Photobook 2016 contest has just published the list of the best books of photographic narrative.In a prominent place of these photo books, we find the selection of portraits of Berenice Abbott by Steidl.Paris Portraits 1925-1930shows the first photographic projects of the artist in highlighting its exploration of the body.In the portraits are some of the most famous artists and writers of the time such as Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim and James Joyce.For this reference book, 115 have been scanned portraits of 83 subjects from the negative original glass, that have been printed in their entirety.These photographs illustrate the philosophy that shaped all subsequent work of Abbott.
Violette Murat, granddaughter of Napoleon III.Berenice Abbott
Eugene Atget, one of the photographers importanes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rescued by Berenice
James Joyce.Berenice Abbott
Jean Cocteau.Berenice Abbott.
Peggy Guggenheim.Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1898. Her first contacts with photography were in Paris while studying sculpture;there, she became assistant to Man Ray, and soon she began working in her own studio, starting with portrait photography.In 1929 she returned to New York, where she began her college career, and there she photographed its neighborhoods, buildings and residents.After a health problem and a medical advice to avoid contamination, she was refitted in Maine where she remained until her death in 1991.
