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Berenice Abbott

Manhattan Bridge, Looking Up, 1936

"Manhattan Bridge, Looking Up", 1936. © Berenice Abbott.

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Introduction

Taken during the grueling years of the Great Depression, thanks to funding from the Federal Art Project (a branch of the Rooseveltian New Deal's Works Progress Administration), this image distills the quintessence of urban dynamism and the architectural transformation of the metropolis.

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