Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott- known as "a master image maker for over 60 years." Photographs from portraits to cityscapes to the world or science. Her first photographs date from 1925 and were taken at Man Ray's Paris studio. She undertook to prove that photography was the medium uniquely qualified to unite art with science. She labored alone for nearly twenty years with little or no encouragement until finally, in 1958, her work was recognized by the Physical Science Study Committee and she was hired to work with that group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for three years.