Berenice Abbott’s Optimistic Modernity
Berenice Abbott, “Self Portrait – Distortion” (ca. 1930), 16.8 × 13.7 cm, printed in 1945-1950 (courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery © Getty Images/Berenice Abbott) MADRID — Berenice Abbott aimed her lens at so many 20th-century subjects that her photographs challenge us to rethink modernity itself. With this in mind, Berenice Abbott: Portraits of Modernity at Fundación MAPFRE presents close to 200 of her photographs, organized into three chapters. It starts with portraits of fellow artists in Paris, then shifts to her New York City streetscapes, and concludes with her scientific photography. By changing focus as…
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