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Reality Makes Them Dream: Recontextualizing 1930s Photography

Reality Makes Them Dream: Recontextualizing 1930s Photography

An image of a street in the 1930s

Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991), Warehouse, Water and Dock Streets, 1936. Gelatin silver print. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Gift of Daniel Mattis.

‘Reality Makes Them Dream’ finds the surreal in the everyday.