Hanover Square

Berenice Abbott, artist

1898–1991

Hanover Square, 1936

Where object was made: Lower Manhattan, New York, United States

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19.2 x 24.2 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 9/16 x 9 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of the WPA Arts Project

Accession number: 0000.0110

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Constructions of Place: Architecture in Photography," Jan-1991, Erin Barnett
While in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century, Abbott met Eugène Atget and became familiar with his encyclopedic documentation of Paris. She returned to the United States in 1929 and began a similar project. Abbott wanted her photographs to be objective representations of her subjects. Called Changing New York, it was supported by the Works Progress Administration and appeared in book form in 1939. Hanover Square and the other photographs in the book pictorially captured the new energy and buildings of the city.