(1898-1991). Chicken Market at 55 Hester Street.

(PHOTOGRAPHY) ABBOTT, BERNICE.

(February 11, 1937), printed 1981

Gelatin silver print. Signed. Numbered 25/60 in pencil on the mount. Photographer’s New York stamp in ink on verso of the mount. Unexamined out of frame.

Part of Abbott’s self-financed, ten-year “Changing New York Project” a project which was primarily a sociological study imbedded within modernist aesthetic practices. Abbott 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.The work provides a historical chronicle of many now destroyed buildings and neighborhoods of Manhattan. See Yochelson, Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, Chap. 1, pl. 10.