{"id":28815,"date":"2025-08-23T13:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T11:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=28815"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:08:48","slug":"bernice-abbott-bringing-photography-to-the-new-school-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/bernice-abbott-bringing-photography-to-the-new-school-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernice Abbott: Bringing Photography to The New School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h9NaoBQ_z00?si=UFWAujPtEhoOHitR\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (7:06): Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) started her career as a photographer in Paris, France. Upon returning to the US Berenice Abbott starte teaching. She spent 24 years (1934-58)  But outside the classroom, Abbott was a central figure in the development of photography as an art form and known for creating some of the most important pieces of art in the 20th century. She wrote the landmark publication A guide to better photography (Crown Publishers in 1941). Her best known work is the traveling exhibition and publication <em>Changing New York<\/em> (1937). She created the book draft for Chaning New York with her girlfriend Elizabeth McCausland. The publisher rejected the text and created a new text. In 2020, Sarah M. Miller published \u2018Documentary in Disbute\u2019 (The MIT Press) with Elizabeth McCausland&#8217;s original text for Berenice Abbott&#8217;s images. <\/p>\n<p>This video is a part of Women\u2019s Legacy Project, published by The New School in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Related Link<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/documentary-in-dispute-by-sarah-m-miller\/\" title=\"Documentary in Dispute by Sarah M. Miller (2021)\">Documentary in Dispute by Sarah M. Miller (2021)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesbian artist and photographer Berenice Abbott taught photography at The New School in New York from 1934-1958 where she founded the university\u2019s first photography program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,22],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-28815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northeastern-united-states","category-photography","tag-berenice-abbott"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}