Documentary in dispute : the original manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland
Elizabeth McCausland (Writer of added text), Sarah M. Miller (Contributor, Writer of preface), Julia Van Haaften (Contributor), Gary Van Zante (Contributor), Berenice Abbott
The 1939 book Changing New York by Berenice Abbott, with text by Elizabeth McCausland, is a landmark of American documentary photography and the career-defining publication by one of modernism's most prominent photographers. Yet no one has ever seen the book that Abbott and McCausland actually planned and wrote. In this book, art historian Sarah M. Miller recreates Abbott and McCausland's original manuscript for Changing New York by sequencing Abbott's one hundred photographs with McCausland's astonishing caption texts. This reconstruction is accompanied by a selection of archival documents that illuminate how the project was developed, and how the original publisher drastically altered it
Print Book, English, 2020
RIC Books ; MIT Press, Toronto, Canada, Cambridge, Mass., 2020