Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1997 (1997.10)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Horace W. Consisting of 266 photographs across thirty-two pages, Abbott’s New York album offers an intimate view of the city at a moment of great cultural and urban transformation. She then pasted these “notes,” as she called them, into a standard black-page album, arranging them by subject and general locale. Abbott wandered the city with a small handheld camera, photographing bridges, billboards, newly erected skyscrapers, elevated trains, and neighborhood street life. When the American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) returned to the United States in January 1929 after eight years in Europe, she was seized by a “fantastic passion” to photograph New York.
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