Berenice Abbott,Bonnie Yochelson
Originally published by The New Press in 1997 to stellar reviews and great acclaim, ,Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, sold more than 20,000 copies in its combined editions and was featured in ,Vanity Fair, Newsweek,, and the, New York Daily News ,and called â€œthe definitive visual record of the city as it was during the Depressionâ€ by the ,Washington Post,.,A Midwesterner who first came to New York in 1918, Abbott (1898â€“1991) was one of the twentieth centuryâ€™s most important photographers, and her images have come to define 1930s New York. In 1921, she moved to Paris and worked as Man Rayâ€™s darkroom assistant. Inspired by the great French photographer EugÃ¨ne Atget, she returned to America in 1929 to photograph New York City. With the financial support of the WPAâ€™s Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1939, she was able to realize her ambition to document a â€œchanging New York.â€,This deluxe hardcover edition features more than 300 duotonesâ€”the complete WPA projectâ€”and 113 variant images, drawings, and period maps, as well as an explanatory text on Abbottâ€™s life and work.
Art,Photography,Art,Nonfiction,New York,Architecture,History
Berenice Abbott: Changing New York