Night View
- Photographer
- Berenice Abbott, American, 1898–1991
- Date
- c.1932, printed 1979
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- depicts
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- photographed in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 13 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (34 x 27 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Lewis Holmes in honor of Mr. and Mrs. James N. Wood
- Rights
- © Berenice Abbott Estate / Courtesy of Commerce Graphics Ltd, Inc., New York
- Object Number
- 320:1980.1
NOTES
Light emanates from the countless windows of 20 or more high-rise buildings in this nighttime scene of New York City. Train tracks cut across the lower third of the image, breaking up the insistent verticality of the skyscrapers.
In 1929, Berenice Abbott returned to New York City from studying in Paris, where she was first introduced to photography. Her artistic focus became the dramatically changing landscape of the city, as skyscrapers replaced low-rise buildings and dominated the skylines of metropolitan areas. In this photograph, the bird’s-eye view offered by the skyscrapers themselves provided Abbott with a new and striking perspective of the evolving cityscape.
In 1929, Berenice Abbott returned to New York City from studying in Paris, where she was first introduced to photography. Her artistic focus became the dramatically changing landscape of the city, as skyscrapers replaced low-rise buildings and dominated the skylines of metropolitan areas. In this photograph, the bird’s-eye view offered by the skyscrapers themselves provided Abbott with a new and striking perspective of the evolving cityscape.
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