Last Set latest SEALED Berenice Abbott 2 Volume Set HC Books Slipcover PHOTOGRAPHY
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MSRP $1500NEW SEALED Berenice Abbott Two Volume Set HC BooksSlipcover PHOTOGRAPHY2008Publisher: Steidl Druckerei Und VerlagWith this deluxe, two-volume slipcased set, photography lovers around the world will at last have a thorough retrospective of the work of Berenice Abbott. Portraitist, Atget editor, chronicler of Paris and New York and a giant of twentieth-century photography, Abbott has long gone without a publication encompassing all of the principal strands of her practice. Included herein is her early work as a portrait photographer in Paris during the 1920s, when she learned photography as Man Ray's darkroom assistant and catalogued the city's artistic life with portraits of James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim, Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, Sylvia Beach, Bryher and Eugene Atget. (During this time, she adopted the French spelling of her first name, Berenice, at the suggestion of Djuna Barnes.) faultless for everyday use. top-grade materials and excellent craftsmanship ensure long-lasting durability.
