Title & Author:

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. ; London, England : MIT Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

xxiii, 311 pages : illustrations, (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

RIC books, collections and archives ; 4.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index.
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Changing New York Reconstructed -- pt. 2 Documents -- "Photographic Record of New York City," 1935 / B. Abbott -- "Definition of Form for Book of Changing New York Photographs," January 20,1938 / E. McCausland -- "Outline for Changing New York Commentary," January 23,1938 / E. McCausland -- McCausland, "Prospectus for Photographic Book, Changing New York," January 23,1938 -- Letter to John Macrae Jr., E. P. Dutton, June 12,1938 / B. Abbott -- Memorandum on Changing New York, June 10,1938 / E. McCausland -- "Introduction" for Changing New York by Berenice Abbott, October 1938 / H. Hitchcock Jr. -- pt. 3 Essays -- Archiving Abbott, Julia Van Haaften and Gary Van Zante -- Documentary in Dispute, Sarah M. Miller -- Introduction Documentary Lost and Found -- 1.Abbott's Documentary From European Avant-garde to American Vanguard -- 2."Dynamic Equilibrium" The Photographic Literacy of Changing New York -- 3.A Book Remade for the World's Fair Competing Images of History and Change -- Conclusion Photography as Democratic Citizenship.

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.

ISBN:

9780262044172 (hardcover)
026204417X (hardcover)

Subject:

Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991. Changing New York.
McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965.
Documentary photography New York (State) New York.
Photographie documentaire New York (État) New York.
Documentary photography
New York (N.Y.) History 1898-1951 Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire 1898-1951 Ouvrages illustrés.
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

History
Pictorial works
Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965, writer of added text.
Miller, Sarah M. (Art historian), contributor, writer of preface.
Van Haaften, Julia, contributor.
Van Zante, Gary, contributor.
Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991. Changing New York.
RIC books ; 4.

Changing New York

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308875
Call No.: BIB 254195
Status: Available