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Title: Newsstand, East 32nd Street and Third Avenue Photographer: Berenice Abbott Year: 1935 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: This typical newsstand carried eight daily newspapers and 200 magazines, almost all published in New York. According to the stand's owner, James Stratakos, detective stories and mystery magazines were the best sellers, closely followed by movie magazines and Westerns. The stand also sold sodas, candy, cigars, and cigarettes. When serving customers inside, Stratakos left the stand unattended. "People are generally honest," he reported, "except at night when a few copies of the News might be snatched." About the Artist: 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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