Berenice Abbott
American Shops, Lodi

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Artist Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991)American, 1898–1991

CultureAmerican

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American Shops, Lodi

Date1954

Place depictedLodi, New Jersey, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (19.1 × 24.1 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. Ronald A. Kurtz

Object number87.354

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Photography

Special Collections

Photographs by LGBTQ Artists

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionThough best known for her photographs of New York City, Berenice Abbott photographed throughout the US. Regardless of geography, her work was consistently inspired by Eugène Atget’s photographs of a disappearing Paris, in which she found “the real world, seen with wonderment and surprise.” Abbott chronicled man-made environments and the changes wrought by time. American Shops, Lodi exposes the oddities of the postwar car-centered culture in California.
ProvenanceRonald A. Kurtz; given to MFAH, 1987.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso lower center in pencil " Berenice Abbott "

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