Documentary in Dispute
The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth Mccausland
$77.23
- Hardcover
450 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2021
Summary
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 ph…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262044172 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026204417X |
| Author: | Sarah Miller |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 450 |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.00kg |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
| Series: | RIC BOOKS (Ryerson Image Centre Books) |
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“A detailed and fascinating work of artistic reclamation.”–Joseph Schreiber
Winner of a Photography Network Book Prize“A detailed and fascinating work of artistic reclamation.“—Joseph Schreiber
About The Author
Sarah Miller
Sarah M. Miller is an art historian and a member of the Art and Visual Culture faculty at Mills College in Oakland, California. She is the author of “‘Simplicity and Directness’- How Documentary Was Born from Writing Photography’s History in the 1930s,” in Subjective/Objective- A Century of Social Photography and “‘Dynamic Equilibrium’- Berenice Abbott’s History of the Now,” in Berenice Abbott- Photographs. Her work has appeared in Aperture, Artforum, caa.reviews, Critical Inquiry, Etudes photographiques, and Photography & Culture, and in publications of the Folio Society, Harvard Art Museums, SF Camerawork, and Galerie du Monde.
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