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Thaddeus John Szarkowski (December 18, 1925 – July 7, 2007) [1] was an American photographer, curator, historian, and critic. [2] From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the director of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
New Documents was an influential [1] documentary photography exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1967, curated by John Szarkowski. [2] It presented photographs by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand and is said to have "represented a shift in emphasis" [3] and "identified a new direction in photography: pictures that seemed to have a casual, snapshot-like look and ...
John Szarkowski: "It seems to me that the subject of Bill Dane’s pictures is the discovery of lyric beauty in Oakland, or the discovery of surprise and delight in what we had been told was a wasteland of boredom, the discovery of classical measure in the heart of God’s own junkyard, the discovery of a kind of optimism, still available at ...
John Szarkowski. Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960. Catalog of exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, 1978, and elsewhere, 1978–1980. ISBN 0870704753, ISBN 0870704761. [21] Susan Kismaric. American Children: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1980.
Examples in Szarkowski's book and the exhibition it was based on [6] included ordinary snapshots, magazine photos, studio portraiture, and specialized documentary work by anonymous professionals. The current wave of interest began in 2000, with a "seminal" [7] essay, "Vernacular Photographies", by the art historian and curator Geoffrey Batchen. [8]
New Topographics: Roberts Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, Henry Wessel Jr.. Göttingen: Steidl, 2009. ISBN 978-3865218278. Includes the work of Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Grohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and ...
John Szarkowski: Study of Quetico Provincial Park-Superior National Forest in Canada and the United States: Also won in 1954 [33] [11] Poetry: Wendell Erdman Berry: Writing [34] Kay Boyle: Eminent figures in German history: Also won in 1934 [35] [19] James Dickey: Burke-Dowling-Adams: Writing [36] Kenneth Koch [37] George Edwin Starbuck ...
Szarkowski was impressed by the young artist and purchased a photograph and photo-etching for the Museum's collection. Smith was included in several group exhibitions at the Museum in the early 1970s: “Photography: New Acquisitions” in 1970, [ 2 ] and “Unique/Multiple: Sculpture/Photographs” in 1973.