Berenice Abbott
Jeu de Paume
February 12 - April 29, 2012
The Jeu de Paume, will open a retrospective showcasing the photographs of Berenice Abbott. She came from Ohio but visited Paris in 1921 and apprenticed with Man Ray. In 1926 she opened her own studio where she made portraits of James Joyce, André Gide, Djuna Barnes, Jean Cocteau, etc. Abbott acquired 1,400 of Parisian documentary photographer, Eugène Atget's glass negatives, and 7,800 prints and sold them to the Museum of Modern Art in 1968.
In 1929 she visited New York intending to return to Paris, but instead, she began a project called Changing New York, which was subsidized by the Federal Art Project. She photographed buildings and this is what will be the centerpiece of the Jeu de Paume Paris show.