Berenice Abbott

The five comprehensive volumes of The Unknown Abbott present hundreds of unseen and till now unpublished images from the sweep of Berenice Abbotts seminal career. New YorkEarly Work contains rare images of New York after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 made by Abbott with a small hand-held camera as sketches for large format photographs. The American Scene showcases photographs from Abbotts journeys through America in 1933, 1934 and 1935, hardly seen since that time. Deep Woods presents Abbotts 1943 and 1967 images of the Red River Logging Company in Californias High Sierra Mountains, her first such documentary project. Greenwich Village collects for the first time the spectrum of Abbotts photographs of Manhattans beloved Lower West Side neighborhood, her home when she left Ohio in 1918 and again in the mid-1930s. Finally, U.S. 1, U.S.A., including Abbotts first experimental work in color, records her ambitious trip down the length of U.S. Route 1 in 1954, a precursor to Robert Franks The Americans.