ike many of Berenice Abbott’s iconic photographs of 1930s New York, (1936) offers a glimpse into a lost world. The gleaming biplane moored in the foreground now looks as quaint as the relics of the vanishing Gilded Age metropolis visible in some of Abbott’s other photographs—horse-drawn peddlers’ carts, rickety el stations—must have once appeared to her. This cycle of reverberating nostalgia was preordained by the title Abbott chose for the seminal collection of these images she published in 1939: . What was then new is now old; what was then old is now
Julian Rose
Mar 09, 2021
3 minutes
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