Lamport Export Company, 507/511 Broadway, New YorkArtwork Info About the Artist 1935 Gelatin silver contact print West 53rd Street studio stamp, in ink, au verso Printed circa 1935 Born in Springfield, Ohio, Berenice Abbott (1898 1991) spent the early part of her artistic career studying sculpture in New York, Berlin, and Paris, where she worked as Man Ray's studio assistant. This experience led her to photography, and in 1926 she established herself as an independent photographer whose portraits of