New York at night

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Title

New York at night

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Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Like Lásló Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Rodchenko and others in 1920s Europe and Russia, Berenice Abbott considered photography the medium best suited for expressing the contemporary world. It was, she said, ‘born of a century which ushered in the speeding-up of science, of haste itself, of exploding knowledge, of super populations, boiling tensions, in short a world in upheaval’.1 New York in the 1930s epitomised for her these characteristics of ‘life at its greatest intensity’.2 She came to this...

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Image

Date created

circa 1932

Creator

Berenice Abbott

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/39454

Related subjects

Buildings / Cities & towns / Street lights / Night / night photography / silver / photographic gelatin / photographic paper / black-and-white prints / gelatin silver prints / black-and-white photographs / works of art / black-and-white photography / Modernist / New York

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