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- DIED. Berenice Abbott, 93, a pioneer of modern photography;
- in Monson, Me. After working as an assistant to Surrealist Man
- Ray in Paris in the early 1920s, Abbott opened a studio on the
- Left Bank and captured Andre Gide, James Joyce and other literary
- figures in incisive naturalistic portraits. In the late 1920s,
- Abbott purchased and preserved thousands of negatives and
- prints from the estate of the obscure French photographer Eugene
- Atget, whose tranquil realism influenced later generations of
- photographers. From Atget she got the idea of systematically
- documenting the modern metropolis through photographs. This she
- did brilliantly in Changing New York, published in 1939.
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