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Berenice Abbott
1898 - 1991
United States View of Exchange Place from Broadway, New York, 1934
Vy över Exhange Place från Broadway, New York
Gelatinsilverfotografi monterat på kartong
34,8 x 9,2 cm
Photography
Purchase 1982
FM 1982 012 002 This artwork is not on display
Berenice Abbott
1898 - 1991
United States View of Exchange Place from Broadway, New York, 1934
Vy över Exhange Place från Broadway, New York
Gelatinsilverfotografi monterat på kartong
34,8 x 9,2 cm
Photography
Purchase 1982
FM 1982 012 002 This artwork is not on display
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- About the work
The street in “View of Exchange Place, New York”
from the finance district on Manhattan is like a deep canyon. The
dramatic cropping of the 20x25 cm negative enhances the effect. Berenice
Abbott’s New York photographs alternate between dizzying worm’s-eye and bird’s-eye
perspectives, and more cubist compositions. In the
cubist-inspired imagery, the urban elements are forged into a flattened unity
of road signs, streets and architectural features. In the
1930s, Abbott documented the New York architecture, in the spirit of Eugène
Atget, who photographed Paris around 1900. She had met Atget in Paris in the
1920s and managed his estate in order to save his photographs for posterity.
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