Berenice Abbott
American Shops, Lodi

American Shops, Lodi

© Berenice Abbott/ Commerce Graphics

American Shops, Lodi
American Shops, Lodi
ArtistAmerican, 1898–1991
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • 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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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 "
verso center a stamp " BERENICE ABBOTT / ABBOTT, MAINE 04406 / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED "

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