{"id":14499,"date":"2015-12-15T13:55:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T11:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=14499"},"modified":"2015-12-15T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T12:09:49","slug":"berenice-abbott-1898-1991-a-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/berenice-abbott-1898-1991-a-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Berenice Abbott (1898 \u2013 1991) – A Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photo:
\nPenn Station, Interior, Manhattan (1936) by Berenice Abbott. Source: Changing New York \/ Berenice Abbott. Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.<\/em><\/p>\n

Berenice Abbott (1898 \u2013 1991)<\/h2>\n

Berenice Abbott<\/a> was a lesbian before this was acceptable. She was a closeted lesbian all her life. In a letter to Kaucyila Brooke, June 3 1985 she writes, ‘I am a photographer, not a lesbian’. She never acknowledged her personal relationship with Jane Heath or any other women.<\/p>\n

Berenice (July 17, 1898 \u2013 December 9, 1991), born in Ohio moved to Paris in 1921 where she apprenticed to the famous artist-photographer Man Ray. In 1926 opened her own studio, where she made portraits of the intelligentsia: Jean Cocteau, James Joyce, Andr\u00e9 Gide, Janet Flanner and Djuna Barnes among them. In 1929 when she returned to New York and began a five-year endeavor called \u201cChanging New York,\u201d subsidised by the Federal Art Project, created by F.D.R.\u2019s New Deal, concentrating on buildings rather than on people.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
\nPhotograph of Radio Row, looking east along Cortlandt Street towards Greenwhich Street, by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) from her “Changing New York” Works Progress Administration\/ Federal Art Project.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Photo:
\nHot Dog Stand, West St. and North Moore, Manhattan (1936). Photo by Berenice Abbott.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Photo:
\nHuts and unemployed, West Houston and Mercer St., Manhattan (1935) by Berenice Abbott.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan (1936) by Berenice Abbott. Source: Changing New York \/ Berenice Abbott. Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Berenice Abbott (1898 \u2013 1991) Berenice Abbott was a lesbian before this was acceptable. She was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[449,22],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-14499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lesbian-art-herstory","category-photography","tag-berenice-abbott"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t