dium of photography, and the essence of the twen-
tieth century.
RICHARDHAWSeealso:Atget, Euge`ne; Architectural Photography;
Man Ray; Works Progress Administration
Biography
Born in Springfield, Ohio, 17 July 1898. Attended Ohio
State University, 1917–1918; moved to Paris to study
sculpture, 1921. Worked as photographic assistant to
Man Ray, 1923–1926; established own portrait studio
in Paris and held first solo exhibition, 1926; began to
document New York City independently, 1929–1935;
traveled with Henry Russell Hitchcock to record pre-
Civil War architecture and the work of Henry Hobson
Richardson, 1933; began to teach photography at
New York’s New School for Social Research, 1934;
traveled the South with Elizabeth McCausland, 1935;
received funding from the Federal Arts Project and
worked on the Changing New York project, 1935–
1939; began science photography, 1940; documented
the Red Rock Logging Company in California, 1943;
worked as photo editor onScience Illustrated, 1944–
- PublishedGreenwich Village: Yesterday & Today
(1949),Magnet(1964), Motion(1965), A Portrait of
Maine(1968),The Attractive Universe(1969), andThe
Red River Photographs(1979). Incorporated the House
of Photography, and established four photographic
patents, 1947–1958; began to photograph Route 1 pro-
ject, 1953; retired from teaching at the New School for
Social Research, 1958; worked for the Physical Science
Study Committee of Educational Services, 1958–1961.
Honorary doctorate from the University of Maine,
1971; honorary doctorate from Smith College, 1973;
received the Association of International Photo Art
Dealers’ award for Outstanding Contribution to the
Field of Photography, 1981; honorary doctorate from
Ohio State University, 1986; awarded the First Interna-
tional Erice Prize for Photography, 1987; inducted as
an Officer in the Legion of Arts and Letters by the
French government, 1988. Died in Monson, Maine, 9
December 1991.
Individual Exhibitions
1926 Portraits Photographiques; Au Sacre du Printemps;
Paris, France
1932 Berenice Abbott: Portraits; Julien Levy Gallery; New
York, New York
1934 Photographs for Henry-Russell Hitchcock’s Urban Ver-
nacular of the Forties, Fifties and Sixties; Yale Univer-
sity, New Haven, Connecticut, and traveling
1934 Photographs of New York City; Museum of the City of
New York; New York, New York
1937 Changing New York—125 Photographs; Museum of
the City of New York; New York, New York
1947 Galerie de l’Epoque; Paris, France
1950 Akron Art Institute; Akron, Ohio
1951 Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
1953 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Fran-
cisco, California
1959 Science Photographs; New School for Social Research;
New York, New York
1960 Science Photographs; Smithsonian Institution;
Washington D.C. and traveling
1970 Berenice Abbott: Photographs; Museum of Modern
Art; New York, New York
1973 Witkin Gallery; New York, New York, and traveling
1976 Berenice Abbott; Marlborough Gallery; New York,
New York
1977 Treat Gallery; Lewiston, Maine
1979 Berenice Abbott: The Red River Photographs; Fine
Arts Work Center; Provincetown, Massachusetts
1980 Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photographs of the
1930s; The New Gallery of Contemporary Art; Cleve-
land, Ohio
1982 Berenice Abbott: The 20s and 30s; Smithsonian Institu-
tion; Washington, D.C., and traveling
1989 Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision; New
York Public Library; New York, New York
1996 Berenice Abbott: Portraits, New York Views and
Science Photographs; International Center of Photogra-
phy; New York, New York
1997 Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, the Complete
WPA Project; The Museum of the City of New York;
New York, New YorkGroup Exhibitions
1928 Film und Foto; Deutsche Werkbund; Stuttgart, Ger-
many
1928 Avant-Garde; Salon des Inde ́pendants; Paris, France
1932 Murals and Photomurals; Museum of Modern Art;
New York, Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn, New York
1932 Philadelphia International Salon of Photography; Ayer
Galleries; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Albright Art Gal-
lery; Buffalo, New York
1940 Pageant of Photography; Golden Gate Exposition; San
Francisco, California
1969 Women, Cameras and Images III; Smithsonian Institu-
tion; Washington, D.C.Selected Works
Euge`ne Atget, Paris, France, 1927
Julien Levy, 1927
James Joyce, c. 1928
New York at Night, 1934
Newstand, 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Nov. 19, 1935
Daily News Building; 42nd Street between Second and Third
Avenues, Nov. 21, 1935
Canyon: 46th Street and Lexington Avenue, Looking West,1936
McGraw Hill Building; From 42nd Street and Ninth Avenue
looking east, May 25, 1936
Gasoline Station; Tremont Avenue and Dock Street, July 2,
1936
Herald Square, 34th and Broadway, July 16, 1936
Rockefeller Center, from 444 Madison Avenue, 1937
Financial district rooftops: II; Looking southwest from roof
of 60 Wall Tower, June 9, 1938
Jacob Heymann Butcher Shop, 345 Sixth Avenue, Manhat-
tan, 1938
Repair Shop, Christopher Street, c. 1946
The Pendulum, c. 1960
Beams of Light Through Glass, c. 1960ABBOTT, BERENICE