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    New York in the Thirties
    New York in the Thirties
    New York in the Thirties
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    New York in the Thirties

    By Berenice Abbott

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    Nearly 100 classic images by noted photographer: Rockefeller Center on the rise, Bowery restaurants, dramatic views of the City's bridges, Washington Square, old movie houses, rows of old tenements laced with laundry, Wall Street, Flatiron Building, waterfront, and many other landmarks.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJul 2, 2013
    ISBN9780486318806
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    New York in the Thirties - Berenice Abbott

    NEW YORK

    IN THE THIRTIES

    1. DE PEYSTER STATUE, Bowling Green, looking north to Broadway, Manhattan; July 23, 1936.* Erected: 1890. Sculptor: George Edwin Bissell (1839-1920).

    Col. Abraham de Peyster (1658-1728) served as mayor, chief justice and president of the King's Council in Dutch colonial days. Two centuries passed, however, before he was immortalized in bronze. Today Bissell's statue stands in Bowling Green on the site where once stood a lead statue of George III, pulled down and melted for Revolutionary bullets.

    * The date on which the photograph was taken appears in the first part of each caption.

    NEW YORK

    IN THE THIRTIES

    [formerly titled: Changing New York]

    AS PHOTOGRAPHED BY

    Berenice Abbott

    TEXT BY ELIZABETH McCAUSLAND

    DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC., NEW YORK

    Copyright © 1939 by The Guilds' Committee for Federal Writers' Publications, Inc.

    Copyright renewed © 1967 by Berenice Abbott. All rights reserved.

    This Dover edition, first published in 1973, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., New York, in 1939, under the title Changing New York. The original text is unaltered, except for the correction of typographical errors.

    The publisher is grateful to The Museum of the City of New York for making their original prints of the photographs available for reproduction.

    Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-77375

    International Standard Book Number

    ISBN-13: 978-0-486-22967-6

    ISBN-10:0-486-22967-X

    Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

    22967X17

    www.doverpublications.com

    NEW YORK IN THE THIRTIES

    Like many gifted American artists, Berenice Abbott was born in Ohio. After studying at the Ohio State University, she went abroad in 1921 for further experience in the field of art and in 1924 started working in the studio of Man Ray. She next turned to portrait photography. Joyce, Marie Laurencin, André Siegfried, Gide, Maurois and Cocteau are only a few of the great and near-great who sat for her camera eye, a vision described in a contemporary critique as as uncompromising as Holbein’s.

    Early in the spring of 1929 she returned to the United States for a visit. While here she became so enthusiastic over what was going on about her that she determined that her work henceforward lay in America. After a brief trip to Paris to wind up her affairs she returned permanently to this country. Here the contrasts of a changed and changing city convinced her that a comprehensive portrait of New York was of more interest to her than portraits of people, and so emerged the idea of Changing New York. With the aid of a small camera, the photographer now known as a big camera exponent began this record with tiny photographic notes. Very shortly she interested I. N. Phelps Stokes, Trustee of the New York Public Library, author of Iconography of Manhattan Island and member of the Municipal Fine Arts Commission, and Harding Scholle, director of the Museum of the City of New York, in her plan for a photographic documentation of New York City. Both of these connoisseurs are still vitally concerned with the undertaking and have aided it throughout.

    The lack of private patronage for the arts and artists in general which was one of the chief factors contributing to the establishment of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration brought Berenice Abbott to us in

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