Berenice Abbott takes an interest in and befriends the old photographer. In 1925, shortly after his death, she buys around 1,500 negatives and 10,000 prints remaining in the workshop, takes them to the United States and devotes forty years to making his work known, work which will have an enormous influence on American photographers like Walker Evans and Lee Friedlander. In 1968, she sells her collection to the Museum of Modern Art of New York.
