"Changing New York", Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)

DePeyster statue, Bowling Green, looking north on Broadway, Manhattan, July 1936

The George Washington Bridge, circa 1930

Broadway to the Battery, from Roof of Irving Trust Company Building, One Wall Street, 1938

Murray Hill Hotel, 112 Park Avenue, 1935

Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan, circa 1936

Tempo of the City: I. Fifth Avenue and 44th Street, 1938

Daily News Building, 42nd Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue, 1935

Squibb Building with Sherry Netherland in Background, 1935

Murlberry and Prince Streets, Manhattan, 1935

"El," Second and Third Avenue Lines, 250 Pearl Street,1936

Cedar Street, (From Williams) Manhattan,1936

El' Second and Third Avenue Lines, Hanover Square and Pearl Street, Manhattan

Country Store: Interior, "Ye Olde Country Store", 2553 Sage Place, Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, 1935

Watuppa, from waterfront, Brooklyn, Manhattan

Shelter on the Waterfront, Coenties Slip, Pier 5, East River, Manhattan ,1938

View of Manhattan from Manhattan Bridge,1937

Lamport Export Company, 507-511 Broadway, 1935

Tempo of the City: II, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Looking west from Seymour Building, 503 Fifth Avenue

Stone and William Street, Manhattan,1936

Downtown Skyport, Foot of Wall Street, East River, Manhattan,1936

Seventh Avenue Looking South from 35th Street, Manhattan. 1935

Books

Old Paris and Changing New York: Photographs by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abbott

(Yale University Press, 2018)

Berenice Abbott

(Hazan, 2012)

Berenice Abbott

(Thames & Hudson, 2010)

Berenice Abbott

(Steidl, 2008)

Berenice Abbott: Photographs

(Horizon Press, 1970)

The Unknown Berenice Abbott

(Steidl, 2013)

Berenice Abbott: American Photographer

(McGraw Hill, 1982)

The Berenice Abbott Portfolios

(Glenbow Museum, 1982)

Berenice Abbott & Eugène Atget

( Arena Editions, 2002)

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

(W. W. Norton & Company, 2018)

Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision

(The New York Public Library, 1989)

Berenice Abbott, Photographer: An Independent Vision

(Clarion Books, 2006)

Berenice Abbott: Masters of Photography Series

(Aperture, 1997)

Berenice Abbott: Changing New York

(The New Press, 1999)

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The structural and social conditions of Glasgow’s slums before their demolition as part of urban improvement efforts in the late 19th century.

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