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Artist's BioBerenice Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1898. In 1918 she moved to New York to study sculpture and moved on to Paris in 1921. From 1923 to 1925 she worked as assistant to the American photographer in Paris, Man Ray. Impressed by her work Ray allowed Abbott to use his studio for her portrait work. In 1926 she set up her own portrait studio and concentrated on people in the artistic and literary worlds: French (Jean Cocteau), expatriates (James Joyce), and people just passing through the city. According to Sylvia Beach, Joyce’s publisher of “Ulysses”, "To be 'done' by Man Ray or Berenice Abbott meant you rated as somebody".Abbott photographed Joyce on several occasions and also photographed his wife Nora and daughter Lucia. This particular portrait is the most iconic image of Joyce in manhood and certainly the most noted of photographs taken by Abbott during her life. It is held among many esteemed private and public photographic collections worldwide, including; The National Portrait Gallery, London. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. |
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