"At a time when 'career women' were not only unconventional but controversial," wrote G. Aimee Ergas in Artists: From Michelangelo to Maya Lin, "[Berenice Abbott] established herself as one of the nation's most gifted photographers." Her work in portraiture, chronicling the residents of Paris in the 1920s, in cityscape, detailing the many facets of New York City during the 1930s, and exploring the realms of science in the 1950s and 1960s have earned her accolades and a special place in the canon of American photographers. Additionally, her work as a teacher of photography introduced a new generation to her theories on photography. Her championing of the French photographer Eugene Atget was a lifelong quest, leading to the groundbreaking publication of The World of Atget in 1964. In her photography, Abbott was a proponent of realism and the documentary approach, a style reflected in her last major project--recording the views...