Berenice Abbott: New York City in the 1930s

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Berenice Abbott by Berenice Abbott / Steidl

Triboro Bridge, New York, 1937
Abbott was enchanted by the energy of New York City and documented the city in the same way her hero the French photographic pioneer, Eugene Atget, had done in Paris.

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