Berenice Abbott
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Berenice Alice Abbott 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
Abbott in the 1930s
Photograph by Abbott of her friend Margarett Sargent taken in Paris in 1928
Abbott's photograph of Janet Flanner in 1925
Bowery restaurant photograph for Changing New York, 1935.
Macro photography
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Macro photography, also called photomacrography or macrography, and sometimes macrophotography, is extreme close-up photography in which the subject is reproduced at greater than its actual size. Macr
Berenice Abbott
…and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s. Super Sight, also known as the Abbott Process, is a form of macro photography developed in the early 1940s by Berenice Abbott. Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, on July 17, 1898, and was raised in Ohio by her divorced mother…
A dedicated macro lens, such as the Vivitar Series 1 90 mm f/2.5 shown here, is one of multiple methods to achieve the large reproduction ratio required for photomacrography.
Minolta Zoom-Rokkor 100–300mm lens with markings for reproduction ratio
Micro-Nikkor 55 mm f/2.8 Ai-S lens, at full barrel extension
Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens. Small front lens elements are typical of macro lenses.