{"product_id":"documentary-in-dispute-isbn-9780262044172","title":"Documentary in Dispute","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe recreation of a landmark in 1930s documentary photography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 1939 book \u003ci\u003eChanging New York\u003c\/i\u003e by Berenice Abbott, with text by Elizabeth McCausland, is a landmark of American documentary photography and the career-defining publication by one of modernism's most prominent photographers. Yet no one has ever seen the book that Abbott and McCausland actually planned and wrote. In this book, art historian Sarah M. Miller recreates Abbott and McCausland's original manuscript for \u003ci\u003eChanging New York\u003c\/i\u003e by sequencing Abbott's one hundred photographs with McCausland's astonishing caption texts. This reconstruction is accompanied by a selection of archival documents that illuminate how the project was developed, and how the original publisher drastically altered it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiller analyzes the manuscript and its revisions to unearth Abbott and McCausland's critical engagement with New York City's built environment and their unique theory of documentary photography. The battle over \u003ci\u003eChanging New York\u003c\/i\u003e, she argues, stemmed from disputes over how Abbott's photographs—and photography more broadly—should shape urban experience on the eve of the futuristic 1939 World's Fair. Ultimately it became a contest over the definition of documentary itself. Gary Van Zante and Julia Van Haaften contribute an essay on Abbott's archive and the partnership with McCausland that shaped their creative collaboration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCopublished with Ryerson Image Centre, Torontoi.Directors'   Foreword (RIC, MCNY, MIT Museum) and Preface (Miller)\u003cbr\u003e ii.Introduction (Miller)\u003cbr\u003e iii.\"Changing New York Reconstructed.\" Elizabeth McCausland's   original captions and published captions corresponding to Abbott and McCausland's   original selection of 100 photographs (205 pages)\u003cbr\u003e iv.\"Changing New York and the Contest of Documentary.\" Primary   scholarly essay (Miller, 160 pages, 15-25 colour illustrations) \u003cbr\u003e v.\"Changing New York: A Physical Artifact.\" Secondary scholarly   text (Van Haaften and Van Zante, 20 pages, 10-20 colour illustrations)  \u003cbr\u003e vi.\"Transcribed Archival Documents.\" 8 transcribed documents   that illustrate the contested publication process of Changing New York   (Miller, 30 pages)  \u003cbr\u003e vii.Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e viii.Index\u003cb\u003eWinner of a Photography Network Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A detailed and fascinating work of artistic reclamation.\"—Joseph SchreiberSarah M. Miller is an art historian and a member of the Art and Visual Culture faculty at Mills College in Oakland, California. She is the author of “'Simplicity and Directness': How Documentary Was Born from Writing Photography's History in the 1930s,” in \u003ci\u003eSubjective\/Objective: A Century of Social Photography\u003c\/i\u003e and “'Dynamic Equilibrium': Berenice Abbott's History of the Now,” in \u003ci\u003eBerenice Abbott: Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, caa.reviews, \u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, Etudes photographiques, and \u003ci\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, and in publications of the Folio Society, Harvard Art Museums, SF Camerawork, and Galerie du Monde.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305372078309,"sku":"NP9780262044172","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262044172.jpg?v=1767725463","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/documentary-in-dispute-isbn-9780262044172","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}