Last Set NEW SEALED Berenice Abbott 2 Volume Set HC Books Slipcover PHOTOGRAPHY Photography Books

MSRP $1500
NEW SEALED Berenice Abbott
Two Volume Set HC Books
Slipcover PHOTOGRAPHY
2008
Publisher: Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag
With this deluxe, two-volume slipcased set, photography lovers around the world will at last have a thorough retrospective of the work of Berenice Abbott. Portraitist, Atget editor, chronicler of Paris and New York and a giant of twentieth-century photography, Abbott has long gone without a publication encompassing all of the principal strands of her practice. Included herein is her early work as a portrait photographer in Paris during the 1920s, when she learned photography as Man Ray’s darkroom assistant and catalogued the city’s artistic life with portraits of James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim, Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Sylvia Beach, Bryher and Eugene Atget. (During this time, she adopted the French spelling of her first name, “Berenice,” at the suggestion of Djuna Barnes.)