Standing at the top of the Empire State Building in the late December chill, Berenice Abbott knew she only had one chance.

Berenice Abbott captured the egomania and wanton development of New York’s streetscapes almost a century ago. The city is still at it. Photographs by Berenice Abbott Text by John Leland The New ...

After learning photography in Paris, Berenice Abbott began documenting New York City in the early 1930s, tracking changes in its boroughs as part of an effort that would become "Changing New York ...

The photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), daughter of a cement-maker, grew up poor in the Midwest and maintained an accent that one observer called “harsh Ohio.” ...

Expatriate American photographer Berenice Abbott met French photographer Eugene Atget in 1926, and his influence on her changed photographic history in the 20th Century. Abbott’s strongest ...

Some 80 years after photographer Berenice Abbott created “Changing New York,” her landmark portfolio of quintessential New York scenes, The Wall Street Journal has painstakingly re-shot more ...

MONSON, Maine (WABI) - The work of a famous American photographer is on display in a small town in Piscataquis County. Berenice Abbott was a central figure in the world of photography and no ...

Berenice Abbott's science photographs invite us to contemplate the wonder of creation. As photographs utilizing the latest technology to illustrate scientific principles they are quintessentially ...

Berenice Abbott from Springfield, Ohio, learned photography in Paris in the darkroom of Stylist Man Ray. Returning to Manhattan in 1929, she was overwhelmed with a desire to document “the whole ...

Fascinating photos of New York taken by Berenice Abbott throughout the 1930s vividly capture the city as it enters the mechanized age and becomes increasingly diverse.

Between 4:30 and 5 p.m. on Dec. 20, 1934, Berenice Abbott's camera was hanging off an upper floor of the Empire State Building recording New York City at Night.