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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 11 april 2018
Review: Berenice

Abbott's remarkable

life in photography

By ANN LEVIN
Associated Press
The word gutsy doesn't
even begin to describe the
great 20th-century photog-
rapher Berenice Abbott.
Nor does brilliant, rebel-
lious, prickly, cantankerous,
inventive or indefatigable.
Taken together, however,
they convey something of
the spirit of a woman born
in 1898 but always ahead of
her time. She was a lesbian
and feminist when homo- This cover image released
sexuality was taboo, deep- by W. W. Norton & Company
shows "Berenice Abbott" A Life
ly interested in science and in Photography, by Julia Van
technology when other Haaften.
artists didn't care, and Associated Press
fiercely committed to doc- In this Jan. 26, 2018 file photo, Fleetwood Mac band members, from left, Stevie Nicks, John McVie,
Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood appear at the 2018 MusiCares Person
umentary realism at a time The prescient rescue of of the Year tribute honoring Fleetwood Mac in New York.
when emotion-laden pic- the prints and negatives of Associated Press
torialism (think Stieglitz and then-obscure French pho-
Steichen) was all the rage tographer Eugene Atget. Not a rumor: Lindsey Buckingham,
in photography. By 1929 Abbott was ea-
Julia Van Haaften, found- ger to return to New York
Depression, she began the Fleetwood Mac part ways
ing curator of the New York where, in the midst of the
Public Library's photogra-
phy collection and author project for which she's best
of the Abbott volume in known: documenting the By ANDREW DALTON once before in 1987, return- to suddenly find himself a
Aperture's Masters of Pho- changing face of a city AP Entertainment Writer ing for a tour in 1996 and re- member.
tography series, attempts where buildings were be- LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lind- maining a steady member "Two weeks ago I received
to grapple with Abbott's ing torn down almost faster sey Buckingham will have since. a wonderful invitation to be
life and legacy in a com- than she could preserve to go his own way. The sing- No details were given on a part of a truly great band,"
prehensive new biography them on film. er-guitarist is out of Fleet- what led to the latest split. Finn said in a statement. "A
that is both absorbing and By the end of the decade wood Mac. Buckingham's agent re- few days later I was stand-
exhausting. she had turned her atten- The band said in a state- ferred requests for com- ing in a room playing mu-
The introduction kicks off tion to scientific photogra- ment Monday that Buck- ment back to a publicist sic with Fleetwood Mac. It
in late December 1932 phy, eventually joining an ingham will not be on their for Fleetwood Mac, who felt fresh and exciting, so
with a thrilling description MIT project to illustrate sci- new tour. The announce- said it wasn't yet clear how many great songs, a spec-
of Abbott setting up her ence course materials. Her ment came in two terse to reach Buckingham for a tacular rhythm section and
camera on a high floor of constant quest for better sentences at the bottom reaction. two of the greatest voices
the Empire State Building photographic equipment of a long news release an- The 68-year-old released ever. Best of all, we sound-
in New York City to shoot and materials led to nu- nouncing the new con- an album and played a se- ed good together. It was
the glittering cityscape of merous inventions, includ- certs. ries of dates with the band's a natural fit. I can't wait to
midtown at twilight, a view ing a monopod and carry- "Lindsey Buckingham will Christine McVie last year. play."
immortalized in her iconic all jacket, a forerunner of not be performing with Fleetwood Mac used most The two voices Finn refers
"Night View." the multi-pocketed safari the band on this tour," the of the news release an- to are those of Nicks and
Then Van Haaften circles vests that street photogra- statement said. "The band nouncing the departure to McVie, who will be on the
back to the beginning: the phers wear today. wishes Lindsey all the best." tout its two new members. tour along with fellow long-
troubled childhood in Ohio. Van Haaften marshaled He'll be jointly replaced by "We jammed with Mike and time members Fleetwood
The escape to Greenwich a tremendous amount of Neil Finn of Crowded House Neil and the chemistry real- and John McVie.
Village, then Paris. The stint research to produce this and Mike Campbell of Tom ly worked and let the band For Campbell, the new
as darkroom assistant to 487-page volume, and you Petty's Heartbreakers. realize that this is the right venture will be his first return
photographer Man Ray. sometimes feel she didn't Buckingham joined the combination to go forward to touring since the death
The early success as a por- want to leave a single mo- band with then-girlfriend with in Fleetwood Mac in October of Petty, his mu-
trait photographer, cap- ment of Abbott's long life Stevie Nicks in 1974 and the style," Mick Fleetwood, the sical partner of 42 years.
turing the likes of James — she died in 1991 — unac- two became the central drummer who co-founded Campbell was a founding
Joyce and Jean Cocteau. counted for. q faces, voices and songwrit- the band in 1967, said in member of the Heartbreak-
ers of the group for the four the statement. "We know ers in 1975, and played with
decades that followed. we have something new, them until just days before
Buckingham sang and ei- yet it's got the unmistak- Petty died. The pair already
ther wrote or co-wrote hits able Mac sound." had ties to Fleetwood Mac.
like "Go Your Own Way," Finn said the group con- They wrote and played on
''Tusk," and "The Chain." tacted him only very re- Nicks' 1981 hit "Stop Drag-
linda.reijnders@cspnv.com Buckingham left the band cently, and he was stunned gin' My Heart Around."q