Documentary in Dispute
the original manuscript of changing new york by berenice abbott and elizabeth mccausland
$119.82
- Hardcover
450 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2021
Summary
Changing New York: Reconstructing a Lost Vision
The 1939 book Changing New York by Berenice Abbott, with text by Elizabeth McCausland, stands as a landmark of American documentary photography and the career-defining publication by one of modernism’s most prominent photographers. Yet, the book that Abbott and McCausland originally planned and wrote has remained unseen until now.
In this book, art historian Sarah M. Miller reconstructs Abbott and McCausland’s original…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262044172 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026204417X |
| Series: | RIC BOOKS (Ryerson Image Centre Books) |
| 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 |
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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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