Great black and white photographers, PART 2

Berenice Abbott , is a famous photographer born Springford, Ohio in 1898 . After finishing school, she went to go study journalism in New York, but either decided to do painting & sculpting. In 1921 she went to Paris to study Emile Bourdelle , and she also worked with Man Ray. She opened her on studio but before that photographed artist and had her first exhibition at the Au Sacre du Printemps Gallery in 1926 . She went back to America in 1929 and began to photograph New York. In 1936 started working with Paul Strand to establish Photo League , which was to show like political protest, and she later on decided to organize projects where people focused on taking photos of working class communities. Her pictures where shown in exhibitions. She published a book in 1939 called Changing New York , and Guide to Better Photography in 1941. Around the 1950's she took photographs that showed laws of physics. She passed away in Monson, Maine in 1991 .