JOHN SZARKOWSKI: PHOTOGRAPHS
John Szarkowski

Hardbound, 10 " x 10", 156 pages
84 tritone illustrations
2005, Bulfinch Press
Essay by Sandra Phillips

From the Publisher:
In a retrospective of the beautiful and uncommonly graceful photographs of John Szarkowski, the most revered photography curator and critic of our time, the hidden half of a lifetime of work is finally given the attention that it deserves.

In this retrospective of the beautiful and uncommonly graceful photographs of John Szarkowski, the most revre photography curator an critic of our time, the hidden half of a lifetime of work is finally given the attention that it deserves.

In 1962, John Szarkowski accepted the position of Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Before that time he had received two Guggenheim Fellowships for his own photography, had been given exhibitions by the Walker Art Center, the George Eastman House, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and had published two books of his photographs The Idea of Louis Sullivan and The Face of Minnesota to critical and popular acclaim. From 1962 until retiring from the Museum in 1991, he made no effort to exhibit or publish his work. Now the work from his first 20 years as a photographer and that since resuming his life as a photographer is presented in this splendidly printed volume. Published in conjunction with a major touring retrospective exhibition, the book is confirmation that Szarkowski is first and foremost a photographer.