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	Bernice Abbott and Eugene Atget
Berenice Abbott’s passion for New York was all about contrasts, and she sought them out with great relish in the ten years she spent photographing the city. The contrasts here are created by sunlight filtering through the overhead fire escape onto the barber-pole stripes and window lettering on the front of the school. Abbott also captured another contrast, the man in dark shabby clothes who leans in the doorway and the young student in a clean white smock gazing through the window.
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