Berenice Abbott in 1930s – Image from Wikipedia article on Ms Abbott
Toronto. My good friend George Dunbar dropped me a letter the other day. Enclosed was an anecdote about Berenice Abbott, a famous NYC photographer. I first learned of her impressive photographs as a subscriber to the original “LIFE LIBRARY of PHOTOGRAPHY“. This anecdote was in the NY Times Sunday, September 8, 2024 column “Metropolitan Diary” as reproduced below.
In the early 1960s I was at university in Montreal. My roomie at the time was in Political Science and bought the Sunday NY Times religiously for its fine American political content. I remember one Sunday he trundled home with a massive seven pounds plus of newspaper…
