Documentary in dispute : the original manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland /

Documentary in dispute : the original manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland /

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Imprint:	Toronto, Canada : RIC Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	xxiii, 311 pages : illustrations, (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	RIC books, collections and archives ; 4. RIC books ; 4.
Subject:	Abbott, Berenice, -- 1898-1991. -- Changing New York. McCausland, Elizabeth, -- 1899-1965. Documentary photography -- New York (State) -- New York. New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Pictorial works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12526305

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Other uniform titles:	Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991. Changing New York. McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965, Miller, Sarah (Sarah M.) Van Haaften, Julia, Van Zante, Gary,
ISBN:	9780262044172 026204417X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 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.

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Summary:	The recreation of a landmark in 1930s documentary photography.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Copublished with Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto
Physical Description:	xxiii, 311 pages : illustrations, (some color) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780262044172 026204417X