Pelota rebotando Bouncing Ball Time Exposure, Cambridge (1958-1961)

Within a series of shows spotlighting women photographers of the twentieth century, the work of Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is presented for the first time in France, at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris, the city where this American photographer began his artistic career. Directed by the Dadaist and surrealist Man Ray, for whom she worked as a portrait artist, Abbott found herself at the heart of the European avant-garde scene, sharing experiences with people like Eugène Atget, Marcel Duchamp and James Joyce. In 1929, a time marked by the Wall Street crash, the artist returned to America, where she developed the project Changing New York, conceived as a documentation of the urban transformations that occurred in the city. In a last period, Abbott worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology producing scientific images to illustrate educational texts. The combination of techniques such as rayography with the need for documentary precision resulted in surprisingly attractive and abstract images...[+]