august utc abbott is primarily notable as a photographer as the rescuer of the works of atget as somebody who argued for certain ideals in photography and to a lesser extent as a didactic writer on photography as a poet etc i don't think she's notable as somebody who did or didn't have various love affairs surprised and dismayed by the percentage of space devoted to the latter i separated it and dumped it in the second half of the article i'm now not so sure that this was a good idea for one thing it forces a certain amount of repetition better i now think to have a more or less chronologically arranged article about her photographic and other achievements that's supplemented where and to an extent appropriate by personal material comments