House Belfast, Maine

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House Belfast, Maine

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Berenice Abbott

American Photographer · 1898–1991

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> The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the v

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Date
1954
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
1108c11e-5863-48d2-a313-ac9a6b776627

Side view of a victorian house, with an elaborate corner turret and fancy molding on the front porch. This elegance is contrasted by a ladder forgotten on the roof and a cluster of tin mailboxes in the foreground.

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