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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898–1991)
An Industrial Designer's Window, Bleecker Street, New York, 1947
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1957
stamped photographer's '50 COMMERCE STREET' credit, Museum of Modern Art reproduction limitation and Museum of Modern Art Publicity Department credits, titled 'Reindeer in store window' in pencil and credited on affixed Museum of Modern Art exhibition label (verso)
image/sheet: 9 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. (24.8 x 19.3 cm.)

Literature
Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott: American Photographs, McGraw Hill, New York, 1982, p. 192.
Ron Kurtz and Hank O’Neal (eds.), The Unknown Abbott, Volume I: New York Early Work 1929-1931, Steidl, New York, 2013, p. 249.
Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott, Vol. 4, Greenwich Village 1935-1950, Steidl, New York, 2013, p. 145.
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Seventy Photographers Look at New York, November 27, 1957–April 15, 1958.
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