Documentary in Dispute

Sarah Miller

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MIT Press
05 January 2021

Photography & photographs

The recreation of a landmark in 1930s documentary photography.

The recreation of a landmark in 1930s documentary photography.

The 1939 bookChanging New Yorkby 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 forChanging New Yorkby 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.

Miller analyzes the manuscript and its revisions to unearth Abbott and McCausland's critical engagement with New York City's built environment and their unique theory of documentary photography. The battle overChanging New York, she argues, stemmed from disputes over how Abbott's photographs-and photography more broadly-should shape urban experience on the eve of the futuristic 1939 World's Fair. Ultimately it became a contest over the definition of documentary itself. Gary Van Zante and Julia Van Haaften contribute an essay on Abbott's archive and the partnership with McCausland that shaped their creative collaboration.

Copublished with Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto

By: Sarah Miller
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262044172
ISBN 10: 026204417X
Pages: 450
Publication Date: 05 January 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah M. Miller is an art historian and a member of the Art and Visual Culture faculty at Mills College in Oakland, California. She is the author of ""'Simplicity and Directness'- How Documentary Was Born from Writing Photography's History in the 1930s,"" inSubjective/Objective- A Century of Social Photographyand ""'Dynamic Equilibrium'- Berenice Abbott's History of the Now,"" inBerenice Abbott- Photographs. Her work has appeared inAperture,Artforum, caa.reviews,Critical Inquiry, Etudes photographiques, andPhotography & Culture, and in publications of the Folio Society, Harvard Art Museums, SF Camerawork, and Galerie du Monde.