Sarah Miller

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Documentary in Dispute: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCauslandHardcover, 8 December 2020

Documentary in Dispute: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland
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Part of Series
Ric Books (Ryerson Image Centre Books)
Print Length
450 pages
Language
English
Publisher
MIT Press
Date Published
8 Dec 2020
ISBN-10
026204417X
ISBN-13
9780262044172

Description

**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

Product Details

Author:
Sarah Miller
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
FR
Date Published:
8 December 2020
Dimensions:
23.62 x 18.29 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
026204417X
ISBN-13:
9780262044172
Language:
English
Pages:
450
Publisher:
Weight:
1133.98 gm

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