Berenice Abbott Print - Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery

Photo taken in 1935.
Jimmy the Barber and his assistant wait for customers at Jimmy’s Barber Shop. The barber shop and Blossom Restaurant occupied the basement and ground floors of the Boston Hotel, a flophouse on the Bowery, a neighborhood famous as a refuge for the downtrodden.

Berenice Abbott was born in the Midwest in 1898. After arriving in NY at age 20 she soon moved to Paris to work as Man Ray’s assistant. Inspired by the French photographer Atget, she returned to NY in 1929 to photograph the city. With financial support from the WPA from 1935-1939 Abbott was able to realize her ambition to document a “changing New York.”

Matted print measures approx. 8 x 7 inches.

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$19.00

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$17.10

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In-Stock