Berenice Abott, who was best known for her black and white photography of New York City buildings and urban design of the 1930's.
She was born in Springfield, Ohio on July 17, 1898 and died on December 9, 1991. She attended Ohio State University but left in 1918. At first she pursued journalism, but then became interested in theatre and sculpture. Abott first became involeved in photography in 1923. Man Ray hired her as darkroom assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse. He was very impressed by her darkroom work that he let her use the studio for she can take her own photographs. She started her own studio on the rue du Bac. After a short time studying photography in Berlin, she went back to Paris in 1927 and started a second studio on the rue Servandoni. She did a book called Changing New York in 1939. She did many other books of her photographs.
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