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Berenice Abbott: Self-Portraits 1925-1940-1931.
Abbott was an experimental avant-gardist photographer, notable for her birds-eye views of New
York’s sky-scrapers, her incisive self-portraiture, and her scientific interpretations. In 1918 (age 19)
she moved to Greenwich Village, making friends with many of the great creatives living there - the
anarchist Hippolyte Havel (her adopted father), and the writer Djuna Barnes (Nightwood 1936). In
Paris in the early 1920s she worked for Man Ray as a darkroom assistant, and soon set up her own
studio, photographing many of the Parisian artists of the period, including Cocteau, Joyce, Sylvia
Beach (etc).She created the central distorted image by exposing folded paper..
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.92.55
Andre Kertesj: Distorting Series 1933.
Taking up photography at age 18, and being amongst the first unofficial war photographers till he was wounded in 1915, the Hungarian Kertesz moved to Paris