Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Berenice Abbott
Born: July 17, 1898
Died: December 9, 1991 (aged 93)
Bio: Berenice Abbott, née Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white photography of New York City architecture and urban design of the 1930s.
Known for:
- Berenice Abbott (1982)
- New York in the Thirties
- Changing New York