New York Changing: Revisiting Berenice Abbott’s New York

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In 1935 the renowned photographer Berenice Abbott set out on a five-year, WPA-funded project to document New York’s transformation from a nineteenth-century city into a brand new metropolis of towering skyscrapers. The result was once the landmark publication Changing New York, a milestone within the history of photography that stands as an indispensable record of the Depression-era city.
More than sixty years later, New York is an even denser city of steel-and-glass and restless energy. Guided by Abbott’s voice and vision, New York photographer Douglas Levere has revisited the sites of 100 of Abbott’s photographs, meticulously duplicating her compositions with exacting detail; every shot is taken at the same time of day, at the same time of year, and with the similar form of camera. New York Changing pairs Levere’s and Abbott’s images, resulting in a remarkable remark at the evolution of a metropolis known for continuously reinventing itself.

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