{"id":16316,"date":"2017-03-15T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=16316"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:53:24","slug":"finding-berenice-abbott-a-private-lesbian-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/finding-berenice-abbott-a-private-lesbian-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Berenice Abbott: A Private Lesbian Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press release by Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art<\/em><\/p>\n

\"BereniceFinding Berenice Abbott: A Private Lesbian Life
\n[a lecture by] Julia Van Haaften
\nEvent Date: March 16, 2017, 6:30 pm
\nat
\nLeslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Main Gallery
\n26 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10012, USA<\/p>\n

Berenice Abbott (1898 – 1991) is best known for her dynamic 1930s cityscapes, Changing New York. As a lesbian and feminist, Abbott found community within the small worlds of Greenwich Village and Montparnasse before discovering a similar freedom in Maine. She listed as an Artist in the 1920 US Census and hung around Man Ray and Djuna Barnes. As she matured in Paris and the US, the once \u201ccrazy kid\u201d became productive, but never fashionable or accommodating. To Abbott\u2019s detriment, her prickly temperament was, in her view, irrelevant to her creativity\u2014inalterable yet inconsequential like her flat Midwestern speech or her same-sex affinity.<\/p>\n

Above all, she wanted to be remembered as a \u201cself-taught risk taker.\u201d Abbott\u2019s oversize B\/W prints are now ubiquitous; their very impersonality a hallmark. Yet she held that because \u201creality\u201d is the subject, a photographer couldn\u2019t help \u201cequating the objective world with his self.\u201d Her biography lies in the creative tension between this belief and its expression, and is mirrored in her long, contradictory life.<\/p>\n

Julia Van Haaften is the author of the biography of American documentary modernist photographer, Berenice Abbott, forthcoming from W. W. Norton, early 2018. This talk is co-sponored by the Robert Giard Foundation and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Berenice Abbott: A Private Lesbian Life by Julia Van Haaften. Event Date: March 16, 6:30 pm
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