Berenice Abbott Unframed

Title: City Arabesque

Photographer: Berenice Abbott

Year: 1938

Approximate Image Size: 11x14

Exhibition quality custom reproduction printed on archival paper with the highest quality ink. These digital prints surpass other digital formats in image quality, sharpness and color saturation.

Description: The Art Deco balcony of 60 Wall Tower enlivens this view of (from left to right) City Hall Park, the back of the Municipal Building (1914), and the approach ramp of the Brooklyn Bridge. Directly below (lower right), the Third Avenue El moved north on Pearl Street. Today, the skyscrapers remain but the tenements have been replaced by the Southbridge Towers (1969), Pace University (1970), and new bridge approaches (1983).

About the Photographer: Berenice Abbott (1898 – 1991) returned to the United States in 1929 after several years abroad to find New York City a modern and rapidly evolving city. For the next decade Abbott worked on a project documenting these dramatic changes. In 1935 the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration agreed to support this project, aptly titled Changing New York. This work resulted in an extensive record of New York’s build environment containing over 700 images that are part of the Museum of the City of New York’s collection.

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$125.00

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$112.50

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