Berenice Abbott moved to New York twice. The first time was in 1918: she was 19 and had come from Ohio to pursue journalism and sculpture. The second time was in 1929: she was now a mature woman of 31 and was returning from eight years living in Paris, where she had trained in Man Ray’s atelier and then went on to photograph the editors of the avant-garde literary magazine The Little Review as well as locals such as Jean Cocteau, Coco Chanel, and Eugène Atget. Back in New York, Abbott set up a portrait studio and began to shoot prominent American businessmen. Those portraits were for profit. Abbott’s real passion was documenting the rapidly changing urban scene. Between 1935 and 1939 she took roughly 300 photographs throughout the five boroughs. Of these, 97 were published in a book called Changing New York. This exhibition presents Abbott’s Paris and New York portraits alongside some of her most notable images of 1930s Greenwich Village. —Elena Clavarino