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"This is one in a series of books that will explore Berenice ABBOTT’s exceptional body of work. Berenice ABBOTT began her photographic career in 1925, taking portraits in Paris of some of the most celebrated artists and writers of the day including Marie Laurencin, Jean Cocteau, Peggy Guggenheim and James Joyce. Within a year her pictures were exhibited and acclaimed.
Content
This photo volume, 'Paris Portraits. 1925-30', features the clear, honest results of Berenice ABBOTT’s earliest photographic endeavor, which illustrates the philosophy that shaped all of her subsequent work. For this landmark book, 115 portraits of 83 subjects have been scanned from the original glass negatives, which have been printed in full." (publisher's note, © Steidl Verlag, 2016)