ISBN: 9780870705274

The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic—an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Mu… More...

The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic—an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available again to a new generation of photographers and lovers of photography in this duotone printing that closely follows the original. Szarkowski's compact text eloquently complements skillfully selected and sequenced groupings of 172 photographs drawn from the entire history and range of the medium. Celebrated works by such masters as Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Steichen, Strand, and Weston are juxtaposed with vernacular documents and even amateur snapshots to analyze the fundamental challenges and opportunities that all photographers have faced. Szarkowski, the legendary curator who worked at the Museum from 1962 to 1991, has published many influential books. But none more radically and succinctly demonstrates why—as U.S. News & World Report put it in 1990—whether Americans know it or not, his thinking about photography has become our thinking about photography. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Art,Design & Photography>Photography>Photography, Museum Of Modern Art Ny Core >1 >T<

2007, ISBN: 9780870705274

The Photographer’s Eye, available again after some years out of print, offers a guide to the medium’s visual language through works by such early masters as Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Evans,… More...

The Photographer’s Eye, available again after some years out of print, offers a guide to the medium’s visual language through works by such early masters as Atget, Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Strand and Weston. In this re-issue, 172 illustrations reveal the extraordinary range of the photograph from the early days of the medium’s development to the mid-1960s. They are accompanied by an essay from Szarkowski, one of the most influential photography curators and critics of our time. Books John Szarkowski|Paperback|Museum of Modern Art|21/05/2007, Museum of Modern Art<