Documentary in Dispute
Subtitle: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth Mccausland
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780262044172
Description: 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.