Berenice Abbott: New York City in the 1930s

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Berenice Abbott by Berenice Abbott / Steidl

Pike and Henry Streets, New York, 1936
Abbott's first photographic job was in Paris, as an assistant to Man Ray, who provided her with rudimentary darkroom techniques. On her return to New York in 1929 she began her project 'Changing New York'.

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