  About the Artwork
  
  
  Berenice Abbott documented New York City during a period of rapid modernization, photographing the city from dramatic vantage points over a decade beginning in 1929. Abbott had worked in Paris in the 1920s for the American-born artist Man Ray; he introduced her to the photographs of Eugène Atget, who documented the vanishing architecture, shop windows, and street vendors of the changing French city. Abbott developed a signature style in the body of images she created of the American metropolis, which would become the publication Changing New York (1940).
  
  
  Title
  Waterfront from Roof of Irving Trust Co. Building
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1938
  
  Artist
  Berenice Abbott
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1898-1991
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Gelatin silver print
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Photographs
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Mary Martin Semmes Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  75.52
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
