BERENICE ABBOTT (1898–1991) ‘EI, Second and Third Avenue Lines, Bowery District’, Manhattan 1936

Vintage silver print 25,2 x 20,2 cm Titled, dated and annotated (incl. neg. no and image code) by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, Federal Art Project “Changing New York” stamp and “commerce st.” studio stamp PROVENANCE Collection Kaspar M. Fleischmann LITERATURE Berenice Abbott, Changing New York, New York 1939, p. 56; Museum of the City of New York, Berenice Abbott. Changing New York, 1997, pl. 5; Berenice Abbott, New York Vol. II, Göttingen 2008, p. 126. “The two men came along just as I was doing this and it does not matter that they are out of focus. I was right in the middle of the street on a little island. This was one of the occasions when I was downright dangerous to document New York, with traffic whizzing by on both sides, but it was very important to get in exactly the right position to make the photograph work.” (Berenice Abbott)