Berenice Abbott: Pioneering Photographer, whose work spans her portraits of cultural figures in Berlin and Paris in the years between WW1 and WW2, documentation of urban life and architecture in the 1930s, a member of the board, teacher and mentor of the New York Photo League, a group and school of progressive photographers concerned with documenting through social realism and innovative photo techniques the important issues of that time from 1936-1952; and her experiments with photographs illustrating for textbooks scientific principles such as magnetism and light.

Berenice Abbott, photographer