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Both groups of specialists spend much of their time trying to satisfy the often peculiar demands that conventioneers sometimes make. So you want a naked lady to pop out of the cake? No problem. But New Orleans' John Abbott had to come up with two 100-ft. trees for a convention of chain-saw manufacturers to demonstrate their goods. Las Vegas decided to allow 26 aircraft to taxi down Paradise Road from McCarran Airport to the convention center for the Agricultural Aviation show...
After Atget died in 1927, Abbott located and purchased his glass-plate negatives and prints while supported financially by art dealer and collector Julien Leby...
...Abbott called herself "an arrogant and narrow-minded critic" of contemporary photography...
...tried to capture their characteristic pose or feature," Abbott said. "I used my intuition and took as much time as I needed...
Although she taught a class in New York for many years, Abbott never showed her work to her students. "I didn't want any little Abbotts floating around," she said...