Traveling the Atlantic highway from Florida to Maine, Anastasia Samoylova found a country in the midst of change, loss—and ...

After spending the Roaring Twenties partying in bohemian Paris, Berenice Abbott returned to New York City in 1929 on a mission. Armed with the archive of her mentor Eugène Atget and a drive to ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Wearing an overcoat and tie, Renee Prahar slumps against a table top, her off-frame gaze — captured nearly a century ago by Berenice Abbott — still magnetically intense. Abbott’s ...

The photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), daughter of a cement-maker, grew up poor in the Midwest and maintained an accent that one observer called “harsh Ohio.” One of nature’s misfits, Abbott ...

In ‘So Easy to See: Berenice Abbott’s Super Sight,’ at the MIT Museum, small things make for big visual packages CAMBRIDGE — It’s been a big year for Berenice Abbott. “Berenice Abbott’s New York Album ...

After learning photography in Paris, Berenice Abbott began documenting New York City in the early 1930s, tracking changes in its boroughs as part of an effort that would become "Changing New York." ...

One of Berenice Abbott's most iconic images of the city, New York at Night was shot from the top of the Empire State Building on December 21, 1932, the shortest day of the year. Carefully timed right ...

NEW YORK — There’s a threefold complementarity to “Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929″ and “Richard Avedon: MURALS,” both of which are currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Abbott show ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Berenice Abbott began her "Changing New York" ...

Manhattan Island is a stony spine of land occupied by millions of tons of masonry and 8,000,000 souls. To Europe it is a dream, to itself a business, and to the U. S. at large a cultural gold fish ...