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BERENICE ABBOTT (American, 1898-1991) WAREHOUSE, WATER AND DOCK STREETS, BROOKLYN signed

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BERENICE ABBOTT (American, 1898-1991) WAREHOUSE, WATER AND DOCK STREETS, BROOKLYN signed
BERENICE ABBOTT (American, 1898-1991) WAREHOUSE, WATER AND DOCK STREETS, BROOKLYN signed "BERENICE ABBOTT" on mount recto in pencil below image artist's MAINE stamp on verso of mount gelatin silver enlargement print mounted on board 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (26 x 33.7 cm) mount: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) May 22, 1936 printed 1950s PROVENANCE Marlborough Gallery, NEW YORK Private Collection, NEW YORK LITERATURE Elizabeth McCausland, NEW YORK IN THE THIRTIES AS PHOTOGRAPHED BY BERENICE ABBOTT, NEW YORK, 1939/1967, pl. 94 (illustrated) Hank O'Neal, BERENICE ABBOTT: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, NEW YORK, 1982, pp. 136-137 (illustrated as a double-page spread) BERENICE ABBOTT, Photo Poche no. 61, Paris, 1995, pl. 10 (illustrated) Bonnie Yochelson, BERENICE ABBOTT: CHANGING NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 1997, p. 136, Outer Boroughs, Brooklyn section, pl. 32 (illustrated) In reference to this photograph, Abbott scholar Bonnie Yochelson has written, "The 1870 warehouses in Abbott's photograph were called the Empire Stores and housed Yuban's green coffee beans imported from South America. The simple monumental facade, enlivened by open shutters and commercial lettering, was a natural subject for Abbott" (Yochelson, BERENICE ABBOTT: CHANGING NEW YORK, New York, 1997, p. 396). Once the heart of Brooklyn's vibrant maritime industry, the area declined after the opening of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and the later closing of the Fulton Ferry in 1924. Empty since 1939, the warehouses miraculously escaped demolition and are today the centerpiece of plans for the development of a future waterfront park in this resurgent neighborhood now known as Dumbo (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass).
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