The recreation of a landmark in 1930s documentary photography. The
1939 book Changing New York by Berenice Abbott, with text by
Elizabeth McCausland, is a landmark of American documentary
photography and the career-defining publication by one of
modernism's most prominent photographers. Yet no one has ever seen
the book that Abbott and McCausland actually planned and wrote. In
this book, art historian Sarah M. Miller recreates Abbott and
McCausland's original manuscript for Changing New York by
sequencing Abbott's one hundred photographs with McCausland's
astonishing caption texts. This reconstruction is accompanied by a
selection of archival documents that illuminate how the project was
developed, and how the original publisher drastically altered it.
Miller analyzes the manuscript and its revisions to unearth Abbott
and McCausland's critical engagement with New York City's built
environment and their unique theory of documentary photography. The
battle over Changing New York, she argues, stemmed from disputes
over how Abbott's photographs--and photography more broadly--should
shape urban experience on the eve of the futuristic 1939 World's
Fair. Ultimately it became a contest over the definition of
documentary itself. Gary Van Zante and Julia Van Haaften contribute
an essay on Abbott's archive and the partnership with McCausland
that shaped their creative collaboration. Copublished with Ryerson
Image Centre, Toronto
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