Vista: Thames Street, No. 22, Man.
February 15, 1938
Berenice Abbott
American, 1898-1991
Photography
When the American photographer Berenice Abbott returned to New York in 1929 after nearly a decade in France, she found a city transformed by modern life. After the Works Progress Administration was established a few years later, she was hired to document the city, producing a large number of often dramatically composed images reflecting its changing features. In this image, Abbott photographed the Trinity and U.S. Realty Buildings (1904−07) on Broadway and Thames Street in the southern part of Manhattan. Older buildings and warehouses sit in the shadow of twentieth-century office towers. Abbott’s steep perspective emphasizes the contrasts in scale and the break between old and new.
- Maker/Artist
- Abbott, Berenice
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- Gelatin silver photograph
- Medium
- gelatin, silver, photograph
- Dimensions
- 9 5/16 x 7 1/8 in. (23.7 x 18.1 cm)
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- X858.24
- Credit Line
- Brooklyn Museum Collection
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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