BERENICE ABBOTT · Selection of writings

This book includes four of Berenice Abbott's seminal writings on photography , serving as a guide to the medium: Photography and Science (1939), A Guide to Better Photography (1941), The View Camera Made Simple (1948), and The World of Atget (1964).

These texts, lightly edited to avoid possible repetitions and highly technical chapters that may be uninteresting for contemporary readers, provide extraordinary theoretical content, precise instructions on how to take a good image and how to acquire the visual tools to do so , and invite reflection. about the difference and responsibility of owning a camera back then and today.

"Now that photography has become a very leisure practice available to anyone, an activity that does not require technique or even particular skill, it is fascinating to return to the writings of Berenice Abbott, one of the photographers most committed to photography. In fact, throughout her life Abbott made a point of making a living by taking photos, something unusual for a woman in the 1920s and 1930s." - Star of Diego.