BERENICE ABBOTT

The Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers. Each book contains a selection of the phot ographer's most important and representative images, plus an introduction and a bibliography. American photographer Berenice Abbott first took up the art while working as an assistant to Man Ray, but soon left to set up her own studio, where she photographed the l eading lights of Paris's literary and artistic circles, including James Joyce and Jean Cocteau. She also met and was inspired by the great ph...[Read more]