Documentary in Dispute av Sarah Miller

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<b>The recreation of a landmark in 1930s documentary photography.<br></b><br>The 1939 book <i>Changing New York</i> by 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 for <i>Changing New York</i> by 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.<br><br>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 docume