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Jul 30, 2021 · This clear-eyed, insightful documentary, directed by Martha Wheelock and Kay Weaver, offers a grand tour of Abbott's extraordinary life, from her youth in Ohio and apprenticeship in Paris through her later groundbreaking scientific photography at MIT and final years in Maine.
Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century, 1992 | From the Vaults. "The only pleasure you can get from creating something is the pleasure you have in doing it, not the final...
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- The Met
The film Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century, which showed 200 of her black and white photographs, suggests that she was a "proud proto-feminist"; someone who was ahead of her time in feminist theory.
Jan 1, 1992 · Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century: Directed by Kay Weaver, Martha Wheelock. With Berenice Abbott. Critics place Berenice Abbott at the head of her class. She was one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th Century.
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- Documentary
- Kay Weaver, Martha Wheelock
- 1992-01-01
Jan 1, 1992 · Filmed during her 91st and 92nd years, the open-hearted Abbott takes us on a guided tour of her century. The tour teaches history, perseverance, courage, and single-minded dedication to one's chosen field.
Aug 30, 2019 · Even now, though Abbott is firmly established as a major figure in 20th-century photography, critically she sometimes seems caught in a pincer movement between Atget and Evans.
Filmed during her 91st and 92nd years, the open-hearted Abbott takes us on a guided tour of her century. The tour teaches history, perseverance, courage, and single-minded dedication to one’s chosen field.
