Man Sitting Across Berenice Abbott's Studio, Greenwich Village, NYC. MOSER, Lida.

A pensive image, signed and dated 1948 by Moser (1920-2014) on the mount. She began her career in Abbott's studio only one year before taking this photograph. She later became a member of the Photo League and earned commissions from Vogue, Esquire, and the New York Times. She is best known for shots of her "dirty, wild, noisy, criminal New York" (Washington Post). Moser was a member of the Photo League alongside her mentor and Weegee, the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig. She "excelled at photojournalism at a time when women were a rarity in the field. Vogue sent her to Britain to photograph artists and writers in 1949, and then to Quebec in 1950 to capture life in its rural towns. [She also] made portraits of musicians like Charles Mingus and Leonard Bernstein and fellow photographers like Yousuf Karsh and Aaron Siskind" (Slotnik). Daniel Slotnik, "Lida Moser, Photographer With an Urban Eye, Dies at 93", The New York Times, 2 September 2014; "Lida Moser, photographer of New York and beyond, dies at 93", The Washington Post, 30 August 2014. Bromoil gelatin silver photograph (85 x 217 mm), mounted on brown card with black paper border (141 x 281 mm), brown string hanging cord on verso. Inscriptions on verso. Photograph a little toned and cockled, mounting slightly marked, old adhesive remains and patches of abrasion on verso: a very good example.