![Berenice Abbott - Subway Entrance [c.1930s]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5708/23135663103_b8b3864144_o.jpg)
Berenice Abbott is a photographer known for her social documentation of New York life as well as urban architecture. Born in Ohio and studied at Ohio State University, Abbott did not finish her education and instead moved to Greenwich Village in New York. In Greenwich Village, she began a lifelong tendency of surrounding herself with free thinkers including Hippolyte Havel, Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Burke, and Malcom Cowley. Abbot started her artistic career by experimenting in theatre and sculpture with a few ventures into journalism. However, it was not until her time in Europe that her artistic reputation began to flourish.
[Heritage Auctions - Gelatin silver, printed later, 18.4 x 23.5 cm]