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Berenice Abbott

photographer
Born: 1898

Berenice Abbott photographed artists and writers in Paris in the 1920s and brought her craft back to her native New York in the 1930s. Her images of New York street life, from grocery stores to fish markets to subways, are among her best loved.

Died: 1991

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