Berenice Abbott On the Bowery

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), “El,” Second and Third Avenue Lines, April 24, 1936 (251.1985)

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Tri-Boro Barber School, 264 Bowery, October 24, 1935 (253.1985)

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Hardware Store, 316-318 Bowery, New York, January 26, 1938 (667.1984)

Berenice Abbott at ICP, November 18, 1981.
“That’s down on the Bowery. Somebody said to me at that time, nice girls don’t go down to the Bowery. I said I’m not a nice girl. You know, I’m a photographer. A photographer goes anywhere.”

Barbara Morgan (1900-1992), Berenice Abbott with Cat, 1942 (543.1986)