PHOTOGRAPHER

Berenice Abbott

1898 - 1991

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Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Berenice Abbott has received more than 503,326 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Berenice Abbott is the 29th most popular photographer (up from 36th in 2019), the 2,429th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,414th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Photographer.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Berenice Abbott ranks 29 out of 148. Before her are Richard Avedon, August Sander, Yousuf Karsh, Robert Mapplethorpe, Roger Fenton, and Irving Penn. After her are Jan Saudek, Nan Goldin, Guillermo Kahlo, Claude Cahun, Edward Weston, and Lewis Hine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Berenice Abbott ranks 85. Before her are Hastings Banda, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Desanka Maksimović, Luigi Fagioli, Helmuth von Pannwitz, and Piero Sraffa. After her are Michel de Ghelderode, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Hans Globke, Grace Moore, Randolph Scott, and Joseph Kessel. Among people deceased in 1991, Berenice Abbott ranks 80. Before her are Edmond Jabès, Pedro Arrupe, Rudolf Serkin, Cassandra Harris, Carmine Coppola, and Yevgeny Dragunov. After her are Joachim Kroll, Daigoro Kondo, Helmut Walcha, Jean Bruller, Ernst Krenek, and Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Berenice Abbott ranks 2,429 out of 20,380. Before her are Bud Powell (1924), Frank Lucas (1930), Tony Sirico (1942), Charles Addams (1912), Mandy Patinkin (1952), and Lana Del Rey (1985). After her are John Hancock (1737), Kirsten Dunst (1982), Nile Rodgers (1952), Rip Torn (1931), Eddie Money (1949), and Saul Bass (1920).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In United States

Among photographers born in United States, Berenice Abbott ranks 8. Before her are Annie Leibovitz (1949), Diane Arbus (1923), Alfred Stieglitz (1864), Richard Avedon (1923), Robert Mapplethorpe (1946), and Irving Penn (1917). After her are Nan Goldin (1953), Edward Weston (1886), Lewis Hine (1874), Carl Van Vechten (1880), Paul Strand (1890), and Herb Ritts (1952).

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