In January 1929, after eight years in Paris, Berenice Abbott was bound for home, traveling on an ocean liner to the United States. She’d fallen in love with the French capital, and planned to return. After all, she was only 31. And she already had friends in high places—Coco Chanel, Jean Cocteau, and Eugène Atget. Once back in Manhattan, however, Abbott’s plans changed. “When I saw New York again,” she said, “and stood in the dirty slush, I felt that here was the thing I had been wanting to do all my life.” Abbott took a few portrait commissions and set up a studio, but dedicated much of her creative energy to shooting the tall buildings and landmarks of neighborhood life. She collected them all in the book “Changing New York.” In this exhibition, unbound pages from the revolutionary publication are on view. —Elena Clavarino