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Article: Keeping an eye on the city. (photographer Berenice Abbott)
- Article from:
- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- February 1, 1998
- Author:
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First off, let it be said that Changing New York, Berenice Abbott's extended study of the buildings of New York in the latter part of the thirties, is a wonderful book. It is a must for anyone interested in photography, in New York City, in urban history and urban magic, in the career of a woman artist. It makes one yearn for a full biography of Abbott. (One is said to be in the works, by Julia van Haaften, Curator of Photographs at the New York Public Library.)
Abbott has not been ignored, but neither she personally nor her work has ever attracted the attention or the public audiences that attended her more charismatic contemporaries: Walker Evans, Lisette Model, ...