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Fruit Market Under Banyan Tree, South Dixie Highway, Miami Florida

1954
Not on view
This evocative study of a bountiful summertime fruit market and a family in dungaree jeans is a superb example of the best of Berenice Abbott’s late-career work with the camera. It belongs to a series made during the artist’s 1954 road trip on US 1 from Florida to Maine, during which her essential subject was small-town America and the effect of the postwar automobile culture on the nation. Abbott is celebrated for her comprehensive Depression-era documentary project, Changing New York. This extended photographic portrait focused on the city’s nineteenth-century tenements and early twentieth-century skyscrapers, and their common ground. In the 1940s and 1950s, Abbott published several notable books and taught photography but made few new series of pictures.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Fruit Market Under Banyan Tree, South Dixie Highway, Miami Florida
  • Artist: Berenice Abbott (American, Springfield, Ohio 1898–1991 Monson, Maine)
  • Date: 1954
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: Image: 7 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (19.4 × 24.4 cm)
    Sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.2 × 25.2 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2014
  • Object Number: 2014.553
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc.
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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