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

Title
Documentary in dispute : the original manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland / [essay and preface by] Sarah M. Miller ; contribution by Julia Van Haaften and Gary Van Zante.
Publication
  • Toronto, Canada : RIC Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Additional Authors
  • Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991.
  • McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965
  • Miller, Sarah M.
  • Van Haaften, Julia
  • Van Zante, Gary
Description
xxiii, 311 pages : illustrations, (some color); 24 cm.
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.
Series Statement
RIC books, collections and archives ; 4
Uniform Title
RIC books ; 4.
Subject
  • Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991
  • McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965
  • 1898-1951
  • Documentary photography > New York (State) > New York
  • Documentary photography
  • New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951 > Pictorial works
  • New York (State) > New York
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Pictorial works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JQE 21-199
ISBN
  • 9780262044172
  • 026204417X
LCCN
2019953312
OCLC
1232235938
Title
Documentary in dispute : the original manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland / [essay and preface by] Sarah M. Miller ; contribution by Julia Van Haaften and Gary Van Zante.
Publisher
Toronto, Canada : RIC Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
RIC books, collections and archives ; 4
RIC books ; 4.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1898-1951
Added Author
Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991. Changing New York.
McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965, writer of added text.
Miller, Sarah M., contributor, writer of preface.
Van Haaften, Julia, contributor.
Van Zante, Gary, contributor.
Research Call Number
JQE 21-199
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