Trucks, Desbrosses Street, June 1st, 1936
1936
Silver print
18.8 x 23.9 cm (7 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Despite the subject’s seeming banality, Trucks, Desbrosses Street, June 1st, 1936 stands out for its rigorous formal composition. Three goods trucks are lined up on the same slanting angle, which is crossed at a vanishing point outside the frame by an inverted straight line formed by the edge of a building’s roof in the background.
This shot of vernacular architecture belongs to the huge "Changing New York" project that Berenice Abbott worked on for five years from 1935 to 1939. Her aim was to show the fast changes transforming New York by taking a "documentary as well as artistic" approach.
Trucks, Desbrosses Street, June 1st, 1936 was presented for the first time by the Pinault Collection at the 2019 "Luogo e Segni" ("Place and Signs") show at the Punta della Dogana in Venice.
This shot of vernacular architecture belongs to the huge "Changing New York" project that Berenice Abbott worked on for five years from 1935 to 1939. Her aim was to show the fast changes transforming New York by taking a "documentary as well as artistic" approach.
Trucks, Desbrosses Street, June 1st, 1936 was presented for the first time by the Pinault Collection at the 2019 "Luogo e Segni" ("Place and Signs") show at the Punta della Dogana in Venice.
Exhibitions
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