{"id":18200,"date":"2023-05-18T08:58:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18200"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:49:08","slug":"james-abbe-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/james-abbe-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"James Abbe Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">James Abbe (American, 1883-1973)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Abbe made his name as a portraitist to the stars of theater and film in the 1920s, as well as a pioneer photojournalist documenting firsthand cultural and political situations around Europe. He was born in Maine, and his family moved to Newport News, Virginia where his father opened a bookstore. When he saw a camera as a child, he became enamored and encouraged his father to apply for a Kodak agency license to sell them and develop film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a boy photographer, Abbe was known by \u201cPic\u201d because of his covering of events happening in the Virginia region. He then became a photographer with the Washington Post during WWI, and later moved to early cinema. He kept an ongoing working relationship with the Gish sisters\u2014some of the most well-known silent stars of the era\u2014and worked for seven months on location in Italy with Lilian Gish for The White Sister (1923). Afterwards, Abbe moved to Paris to shoot the theater and became an early celebrity photographer for Vanity Fair, Ladies\u2019 Home Journal, and Vogue, among many others. Then, he transitioned to covering politics and was the first Westerner to photograph Stalin at the Kremlin, publishing a book with photos forbidden by the Soviet regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Abbe (American, 1883-1973) Abbe made his name as a portraitist to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19108,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18200\/revisions\/19108"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}