Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age —
Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott's celebrated images depict New York on the cusp of becoming the global hub it is today
In one 1932 photo Abbott painstakingly captures the new skyscrapers and a new type of city -- the unsleeping, modernist city with extremes of wealth and poverty -- as it bursts into life
The shot taken in 1934 reportedly required a 15 minute exposure. Abbott captured it and created one of the most enduring shots of the changing city.