Jefferson Market Court, southwest corner of Sixth Avenue and...
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Digital ID: 482552. Jefferson Market Court, southwest corner of Sixth Avenue and West 10th Street, looking north from southwest corner of Sixth Avenue and West 9th Street, Manhattan.. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. October 21, 1935. .Notes: Code: I.A.1. Jefferson Market Court, with Sixth Avenue elevated railroad in front of it, West Side Savings Bank clock, right, pedestrians, traffic.. .Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info ( ...col_id=160 ) ). .Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.. .See more information about this image ( http://...482552 ) and others at NYPL Digital Gallery ( http://digitalgallery.nypl.org ) ..: ...482552 ( http://...482552 ) . .Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (for more information, click here ( http://www.nypl.org/node/8314 ) )
Photographic views of New York City, 1860's-2010's,
Abbott was born in Springfield, Ohio, and later moved to New York City, where she studied sculpture. She became interested in photography and worked as an assistant to the famous photographer Man Ray in Paris. Abbott is known for her black and white photographs of New York City architecture, which she began taking in the 1930s. She also documented the city's changing urban landscape over several decades. Abbott's work has been exhibited in major museums around the world, and she has received numerous awards and honours for her contributions to photography. Her legacy as a photographer continues to inspire and influence artists today.
Collection - Changing New York
Photographic views of New York City, 1860's-2010's,Collection - Berenice Abbott (1898–1991)
American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s.
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