Berenice Abbott: New York City in the 1930s

Talman street, between Jay and Bridge Streets, Brooklyn, New York, 1936
"Brooklyn had a lot of charm - wonderful neighbourhoods, classical houses. It also had neighbourhoods like this. When I set up my camera no one paid any attention to me. I still found it difficult to photograph scenes like this; poverty distresses me very much."

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