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Berenice Abbott American
Abbott positioned her camera to capture the Municipal Building and the Woolworth Building rising behind a tight row of nineteenth-century tenements on the Lower East Side, creating a stark juxtaposition of majestic skyscrapers and humble dwellings.
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Title: Henry Street from Market, Looking West, Manhattan
Artist:
Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)
Date: November 29, 1935
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 19.2 x 24.2 cm (7 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2012
Accession Number: 2012.481.1
Rights and Reproduction: © Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc.
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