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Berenice Abbott, née Bernice Alice Abbott, was an American photographer best known for her portraits of between-the-wars 20th century cultural figures, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation in the 1940s to 1960s

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Her first photographs of New York were taken with a hand-held Kurt-Bentzin camera, but soon she acquired a Century Universal camera, which produced 8 × 10-inch negatives. Using this large format camera, Abbott photographed the city with the diligence and attention to detail she had so admired in Eugène Atget.

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she became part of the straight photography movement, which later made stress the importance of photographs being unmanipulated in both subjects

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she would uses a dark room and often cropped and drastically, removing unwanted elements. she didn't want to correct her mistakes she just was acting deliberate

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In 1958, she produced a series of photographs for a high-school physics textbook. Abbott was appointed by The Physical Science Study Committee, which wanted her to present theories of science in a clear and accessible way.