Changing New York : Photographs by Berenice Abbott. First edition.
New York, : E.P. Dutton & Co., 1939. 208 pp. Text by Elizabeth McCausland. 29x22 cm (11¼x8½"), blue buckram stamped in gilt. Rebacked with original spine text on new blue cloth. First Edition....
A Publication of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration of one of the most enduring of American documentary photographers. Parr/Badger I 141; Roth 100; Hasselblad 130; Auer 276....OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:
846126670...
"Berenice Abbott was one of the most important American advocates of modernist-documentary photography, both in her writings and in her photography...To her the poetic and historical aspects of the documentary mode were its most important, although she was not opposed to its reformist role. She demonstrated this in her contribution to the bibliography of the 1930s documentary--Changing New York. Changing New York is clearly inspired by Abbott's understanding of Atget. Her theme is one firmly in the Atget mould--the constant regeneration and renewal of the modern city, the old squeezed out by the new, the small trader squeezed out by big business. She demonstrates that she absorbed the iconography of Atget and [Walker] Evans, the shopfronts and signs, the street traders and furniture, the contrast between ancient and modern. And yet, despite its splendid New Vision-style cover, and the individual excellence of Abbott's images".--The Photobook : A History Volume I. Item #51-7270
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