This show has been listed as a TimeOut Critics’ Pick every weekend for about 6 months and I’ve successfully ignored it. This photo is compelling, though. I give up! Let’s do it.
Know your New York City history
“The Edge of New York: Waterfront Photographs highlights that transition revealing the industrial waterfront of the 20th century and what it became. The historic photographs in the exhibition, drawn from the magnificent collection of the Museum of the City of New York, feature the working port as a site for manufacturing and commercial activity in the 1930s and 1940s, when it was at its peak but on the cusp of profound change. This selection includes photographs by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Andreas Feininger (1906-1999), and David Robbins (1912-1981) of the piers and shipping facilities that comprised the port of New York and the longshoremen who worked there. These photographs demonstrate the vitality of the waterfront and its complete integration into the urban infrastructure of the city.”
At The Museum of the City of New York through Nov 29.
The NYT has posted several photos from the exhibit.
Robinson, put it on the list.
