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PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS,
NOVEMBER 2004
NOW IN IT'S SECOND PRINTING
NEW YORK CHANGING
REVISITING BERENICE ABBOTT'S NEW YORK
By DOUGLAS LEVERE
with
text by BONNIE YOCHELSON
forewords by PAUL GOLDBERGER
and SUSAN HENSHAW JONES
192 Pages, 170 Duotones
ISBN 1-56898-473-1 Hardcover
NEW
YORK CHANGING: DOUGLAS LEVERE REVISITS BERENICE ABBOTT'S NEW YORK
New
York Changing: Douglas Levere Revisits Berenice Abbott’s New
York presents pairs of images by contemporary photographer Douglas
Levere and world-renown photographer Berenice Abbott. Abbott’s
iconic photographs, drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection,
were taken in the 1930s and first published in her landmark book,
Changing New York (1939). More than six decades later, Levere used
the same camera Abbott had used and returned to the same locations
at the same time of day and the same time of year. Indeed, he took
on the role of detective as he successfully sought to understand
and replicate every aspect of Abbott’s process. When seen
side by side, these two remarkable bodies of work reveal much about
the city and the nature of urban transformation. Perhaps more
than anything else, these carefully crafted images powerfully suggest
that in New York, the only constant is change.
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PRAISE
FOR THE WORK
"The
result is another classic."
AUTHOR, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES, JANE
JACOBS
"Levere has paid the greatest homage imaginable to Abbott in
this remarkable work."
THE NEW YORKER, PAUL GOLDBERGER
"...charming..."
THE NEW YORK TIMES, VICKY
GOLDBERG
"Levere's New York Changing would seem bound to collapse under
the weight of such an impressive and daunting lineage. the photographs,
which are remarkable in every way, prove otherwise."
PHOTOGRAPHER, EDUCATOR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, THOMAS
ROMA
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ABOUT
THE WORK
Berenice
Abbottís "Changing New York" project in the late 1930ís
created a majestic documentation of Manhattan and the surrounding
boroughs. Since 1997 I have returned to the original sites, with
the identical camera, an 8x10 Century Universal, at the same time
of day and year.
A single photograph gives the illusion that time stops. A rephotograph
lifts that illusion. In this tangling of the old and the new, the
different and the same, lies the truth that Berenice Abbott understood
well. All is flux; change is the only permanence. I hope that our
paired works constitute a fresh invitation not only to the rephotographers
of the future but to anyone interested in urban life. The future
of our city depends, in great part, on understanding how past decisions
have played out.
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Douglas Levere, CLICK
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