Henry Street from Market, Looking West, Manhattan
Berenice Abbott
November 29, 1935 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs
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.
- Artist
- Berenice Abbott
- Date
- November 29, 1935
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2012
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