On this day
17
July

Berenice Abbott, Billie Holiday

Born: Berenice Abbott (1898)
Died: Billie Holiday (1959)

Born on this day

17JulBorn 1898128th birthday

Berenice Abbott

She photographed the Paris avant-garde, helped preserve Atget’s archive and documented a changing New York.

Died on this day

17JulDied 195967th anniversary of death

Billie Holiday

Her phrasing transformed popular songs, while “Strange Fruit” made the violence of lynching impossible to ignore.