GREENWICH VILLAGE, TODAY & YESTERDAY, WITH 72 PHOTOGRAVURES BY BERENICE ABBOTT
ABBOTT, Berenice and LANIER, Henry Wysham. Greenwich Village, Today & Yesterday. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1949). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition, illustrated with 72 striking black-and-white photogravures by Berenice Abbott.
Having spent most of the 1920s in Paris photographing such famous literati as James Joyce, Jean Cocteau and Andre Gide, Abbott returned to New York with the intention "to do in Manhattan what Atget did in Paris." Throughout the 30s she captured New York "with a straightforward style that nodded toward 19th-century classicism while signaling a new sort of stripped-down modernism" (Roth, 100). Included here are her images of such artists as Isamu Noguchi, Edward Hopper, John Sloan and William Auerbach-Levy, each in their studios, along with numerous glimpses into the buildings, people and life of Greenwich Village. Text by Henry W. Lanier, editor, writer and son of renowned southern poet Sydney Lanier. Greenwich Village was issued as part of the Harper's Art Library series. Copyright page with "First Edition"; code "I-Y" indicating publication in September 1949. See Parr & Badger I:141.
Book fine; light edge-wear to bright near-fine dust jacket.