A few years ago, I did a bit of strictly amateur “after” photography to contrast with Berenice Abbott’s 1930s “before” shots, just as her photographs were an updating of what had come before. Stroll through these NYC neighborhoods, all south of 23rd Street; treasure what remains from Abbott’s time and imagine what is still to come.
In 1935, the WPA supplied Abbott with money, a photographic assistant, and a team of nine research assistants. She spent the next four years documenting Depression-era New York. Read more…
