Description
56 Seventh Avenue is the address in Greenwich Village where Berenice Abbott took this photograph in 1937, capturing a high-rise view of unremarkable buildings framed by patio furniture and metal railings. Those may not be spectacular subject matter, but Abbott made a career out of transforming the prosaic into the sublime, with a sculptor’s eye and an artist’s heart. The composition she thoughtfully created is a quiet love letter to her life in New York – its unexpected juxtapositions and the poetry that can result.
