Bonnie Yochelson is a consulting curator at the Museum of the City of New York. The Museum of the City of New York is a nonprofit, private educational organization established in 1923 to collect, preserve, and present original cultural materials related to the history of New York City.
5つ星のうち5.0The standard work of photography of the great metropolis in the period running from 1935 up to ...
2018年3月10日に英国でレビュー済み
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The standard work of photography of the great metropolis in the period running from 1935 up to 1939. This book of and about Abbott's work, based on the collection held in the city of New York of her photographs for the New Deal Federal Art Project, is comprehensive and well-designed to showcase this remarkable body of work, made under far from ideal circumstances.
5つ星のうち5.0If you love old New York, this is your book
2009年5月1日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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I loved this book so much, that I gave it to a dear old friend as a gift. She is almost 80 years old and I knew it would be a nice trip down memory lane for her. I'm considerably younger, but there are many places in New York that I remember that are no longer there. This book does a great job with presenting photos then and now along with the history of the site and what's happened to it over the years. We should all be grateful to Ms. Abbott for capturing the best of the city at a time when it was so young. Never innocent, but that's what makes this town so special.
Another great read, Forgotten New York by Kevin Walsh, is a kind of recent version of this type of book in that there are tons of great photos of areas and structures in all five boroughs of New York that are still here but on the way to being demolished or lost forever (old abandoned buildings, "ghost advertising signs" on walls, overgrown private cemeteries, etc.). It makes you want to visit every place he writes about so you can experience a bit of history for yourself before it's gone forever.
Photo histories of New York are always great nostalgic reads and I think Changing New York makes a wonderful addition to anyone's collection.
If you have ANY interest in New York's past, this photographic essay is indispensable and at last available in full. This is an era that is within (just) popular memory, there are people alive in the city today who were alive then, and yet it seems as long ago as the Medes and the Persians. Thank goodness Abbott embarked on this project, it's just a shame that with the end of the New Deal her funding dried up.