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...Bernice Abbott, an 81-year-old American photographer, told a Carpenter Center audience yesterday that, as a young artist, she felt photography "was the art of the century," and "a sleeping giant...
...Abbott is well known for her portraits of literary figures and Manhattan skyscrapers. She said she originally became interested in photography "by accident...
...first I just needed a job," Abbott said. "I was more of a guileless fool than anything. My friend Man Ray ran a portrait studio in Paris and wanted an assistant," she added...
After apprenticing with Man Ray, Abbott established her own portrait studio which attracted James Joyce, Jean Cocteau, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and fellow photographer Eugene Atget...
...good news first: George Abbott, at 91, is still one of the best directors around, and if he walks slowly these days, you would never know it from the staging of this, his 119th production. No one can move actors around faster, get more laughs out of a joke or slide so gracefully over a play's weak spots. The bad news is that the weak spots in Winning Isn't Everything, which opened last week at Manhattan's Hudson Guild Theater, are more like potholes, and even Abbott and an able cast occasionally stumble...