Yuban Warehouse, Lower Manhattan
- Photographer
- Berenice Abbott, American, 1898–1991
- Date
- 1936, printed 1979
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- depicts
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (26.7 × 34.3 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
- 320:1980.8
NOTES
A man reading a newspaper is dwarfed by the massive brick warehouse behind him in this dramatically foreshortened street view. Berenice Abbott made this photograph as part of her series Changing New York. She wanted the series to “suggest the flux of activity of the metropolis, the interaction of human beings and solid architectural constructions, all impinging upon each other in time.” The warehouse, which still stands today, was home to Arbuckle Brothers Coffee when the Brooklyn waterfront was a thriving shipping center.
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