Documentary in Dispute
Documentary in Dispute The recreation of a landmark in 1930s documentary photography.Berenice Abbott's Changing New York (1939) is the career-defining book by one of modernism's most prominent…
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Documentary in Dispute
The recreation of a landmark in 1930s documentary photography.Berenice Abbott's Changing New York (1939) is the career-defining book by one of modernism's most prominent photographers and a landmark in 1930s documentary photography. Dutton with support from the New Deal's Federal Art Project, the book presented ninety-seven photographs from Abbott's larger WPA-funded "Changing New York" project (1935-1939), with by captions credited to art critic Elizabeth McCausland. Published in 1939 by E. P.
As a consequence, their wholly unique theory of documentary, along with their radical program for conjoining change, history, experience, and photography-trained vision in New York City's built environment, have been lost. This book Yet, because of editorial changes by the publisher, the book that Abbott and McCausland actually planned, sequenced, and wrote remains unseen.