Berenice Abbott: New York City in the 1930s

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Berenice Abbott by Berenice Abbott / Steidl

Floating oyster houses, South Street and Pike Slip, New York, 1931-32.
Abbott: "All the New York photographs took a good while to set up because it was necessary to select the camera position carefully. These photographs were not done on the spur of the moment."

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