Changing New York
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Changing New York, a personal project by Berenice Abbott, is one of the greatest documents of New York in the 1930s. After Abbott had looked for funding for five years, the FAP (Federal Art Project) hired her and funded it. A collection of over 300 final photographs by Berenice Abbott that was published in 1939. This work has provided a historical chronicle of many now-destroyed buildings and neighborhoods of Manhattan. Abbott's work has been reprinted by Dover Publications under the title New York in the Thirties.
"New York Changing" by Douglas Levere revisits Abbott's work 60 years later with the same camera dates and times as Abbott's original works.
