American photographer.

Click the image for the NYT article.

It’s easy to think of Berenice Abbott (1898 – 1991) as the woman who ‘discovered’ all those great Atget images, making the photographer posthumously famous, but she was also a fine photographer in her own right, and the New York Times article linked above goves a great introduction to the woman and her work. Her portrait image, above, was made by Walker Evans.