Harlem Street: II. 422-424 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.

Dublin Core

Title

Harlem Street: II. 422-424 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.

Subject

New York (N.Y.)
Streets -- New York (State) -- New York
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York
Barbershops -- New York (State) -- New York
churches -- New York (State) -- New York
Dwellings -- New York (State) -- New York
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Description

Berneice Abbott, "Changing New York" Project. The photographer worked for the Federal Art Project from 1935-1939.

From Wikipedia: Abbott's project was primarily a sociological study embedded within modernist aesthetic practices. She sought to create a broadly inclusive collection of photographs that together suggest a vital interaction between three aspects of urban life: the diverse people of the city; the places they live, work and play; and their daily activities. It was intended to empower people by making them realize that their environment was a consequence of their collective behavior (and vice versa). Moreover, she avoided the merely pretty in favor of what she described as "fantastic" contrasts between the old and the new, and chose her camera angles and lenses to create compositions that either stabilized a subject (if she approved of it), or destabilized it (if she scorned it).

Wikipedia Reference: Wikipedia contributors, "Berenice Abbott," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berenice_Abbott&oldid=737304869(accessed September 5, 2016).

Creator

Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991 (Photographer)

Source

Changing New York

Publisher

New York Public Library Public Domain

Date

1938-06-14

Contributor

Not applicable to this collection

Rights

From The New York Public Library | Direct Link:

Relation

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Shelf locator: MFZ (Abbott) 96-4294

Format

Extent: 1 photograph: gelatin silver print, matte, double weight paper; 8 x 10 in. untrimmed contact print on mount 9.5 x 15 in.

Language

English

Type

Still image

Identifier

NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13668355
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 07a710d0-c60d-012f-5da4-58d385a7bc34

Coverage

Content: Code: III.A.4.
Exhibitions: Exhibited: Modern Vision #120
Content: Women sit on steps of house that serves as a church, with barber- shop below, white man talks to barber, beauty shop, and auto school next door.
Citation/reference: CNY# 304
Ownership: Milstein Division of US History, Local History and Genealogy transfer, 1988

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photo

Physical Dimensions

10.19 x8.56 in

Files

Harlem II.JPG

Citation

Abbott, Berenice, 1898-1991 (Photographer), “Harlem Street: II. 422-424 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan.,” The Arts At Page Library Online Exhibition Space, accessed March 28, 2024, https://theartsatpagelibrary.omeka.net/items/show/29.