Berenice Abbott @ Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum

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Berenice Abbott @ Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum

July 2nd, 2016 by fstop

Flatiron Building, NYC, 1938 ©Berenice Abbott. Commerce Graphics. Getty images. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Ga., NYC

Berenice Abbott “Photographs”
July 1 to October 3

Berenice Abbott can be considered the photographer of New York City. A revolutionary documentary photographer, Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1898, and studied for one year at Ohio State University, Columbus, before moving to New York in 1918 to study sculpture. While in New York, Abbott met Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, two of the founders of the Dada movement, an artistic intellectual movement that emerged as a protest to the senseless suffering of World War I. Dada artists sought to question convention and tradition through seemingly nonsensical works presented in performances, literature, and the visual arts.

Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum
Niederkirchnerstrasse 7,
10963 Berlin
Germany

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