Lisette Model
1942 (ca)
Coney Island Bather, NY (Large woman on the beach)

Gelatin silver print
15 1/2 x 19 1/2 ins
 
National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Photo © National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. © Estate Lisette Model
 
Berenice Abbott stated: "She [Model] uses the camera with her entire body as an extension of the eye itself . . . To look at life unblinkingly. . . . Lisette said: 'Don't shoot 'till the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.'"
 
Berenice Abbott, Preface, Lisette Model (Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1979), 8-9.
 
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