“with the precision and the flexibility, the accommodation and power of machines as we know them today!”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
Figure timeline
Berenice Abbott
Berenice Alice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
science · American photographer (1898–1991) · photographer · architectural photographer · artist · inventor · also Berenice Abbott, Bernice Abbott, Berenice Abbot, Berenice Alice Abbott, B. A., Abbott
Born 17 July 1898 · Died 9 December 1991 · Q231861
47 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
14 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Quote
- Award
2026· 4 entries
Village Preservation: Commerce Street, 1938 Bernice Abbott photo courtesy of the MoMA
- #news
- #headline
Le Figaro: Berenice Abbott
- #news
- #headline
Artnet news: Berenice Abbott's New York IV (Complete Portfolio)
- #news
- #headline
2025· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Berenice Abbott Photographs relating to Changing New York
- #news
- #headline
insider.si.edu: Photograph of Berenice Abbott holding a cat
- #news
- #headline
2018· 2 entries
Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography by Julia Van Haaften (W
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
The first comprehensive biography was published in 2018, Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography by Julia Van Haaften (W.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
2017· 3 entries
Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,306 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger <sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,686 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
Abbott's life and work are the subject of the 2017 novel The Realist: A Novel of Berenice Abbott, by Sarah Coleman.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,755 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
2014· 1 entry
Published “Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) and Their Applications” in Chemical Reviews — cited 6,902 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
2012· 2 entries
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,807 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
Some of her work from this era was displayed at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2010· 1 entry
Published “Structure and function of the blood–brain barrier” in Neurobiology of Disease — cited 4,509 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
2008· 1 entry
Time: Berenice Abbott: New York City in the 1930s
- #news
- #headline
2006· 1 entry
Published “Astrocyte–endothelial interactions at the blood–brain barrier” in Nature Reviews Neuroscience — cited 4,798 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
2004· 1 entry
Published “Deep Eutectic Solvents Formed between Choline Chloride and Carboxylic Acids: Versatile Alternatives to Ionic Liquids” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 4,111 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
2002· 1 entry
Published “Novel solvent properties of choline chloride/urea mixturesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: spectroscopic data. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b2/b210714g/” in Chemical Communications — cited 5,351 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
1991· 5 entries
Died 1991-12-09.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
Awarded Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (1991).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
“The Baroness was like Jesus Christ and Shakespeare all rolled into one and perhaps she was the most influential person to me in the early part of my life.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
Published “Atrial fibrillation as an independent risk factor for stroke: the Framingham Study.” in Stroke — cited 5,831 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
“Original: «[...] people say they need to express their emotions. I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:es
1988· 1 entry
Published “The System of Professions” — cited 6,766 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
1982· 1 entry
Awarded Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (1982).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1949· 1 entry
Her photography book Greenwich Village Today and Yesterday was published by Harper & Brothers
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1943· 1 entry
Abbott was commissioned by Hudson D
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1939· 1 entry
Had produced 305 photographs that were then deposited at the Museum of the City of New York
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1937· 1 entry
Entitled "Changing New York" at the Museum of the City of New York
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1935· 2 entries
Abbott was hired by the Federal Art Project (FAP) as a project supervisor for her "Changing New York" project
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Abbott moved into a Greenwich Village loft with art critic Elizabeth McCausland, with whom she lived until McCausland's death in 1965
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1934· 1 entry
Henry-Russell Hitchcock asked Abbott to photograph two subjects: antebellum architecture and the architecture of H
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1927· 3 entries
And bought the remainder of his estate, which contained thousands of prints and over a thousand negatives
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
And Julien Levy had acquired a large portion of his negatives and glass slides, which she then brought over to New York in 1929
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
And started a second studio, on the rue Servandoni
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1925· 2 entries
Man Ray introduced her to Eugène Atget's photographs
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Published “A Method of Computing the Effectiveness of an Insecticide” in Journal of Economic Entomology — cited 11,092 times.
- #crossref
- #research
- #work
1923· 1 entry
When Man Ray hired her as a darkroom assistant at his portrait studio in Montparnasse
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1921· 3 entries
Traveled to Paris and studied sculpture with Emile Bourdelle
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Her first major works was in an exhibition in the Parisian gallery Le Sacre du Printemps
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière (1921).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #education
1920· 1 entry
And his friend and executor André Calmettes sold 2,000 more immediately after his death — Abbott was able to buy the remainder in June 1928, and quickly started work on its promotion
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1918· 1 entry
Studied at Ohio State University (1917–1918).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #education
1898· 2 entries
Born 1898-07-17.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth
And was raised in Ohio by her divorced mother, née Lillian Alice Bunn (m
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event