In The Early 1950s, Having Just Received A Guggenheim Fellowship, John Szarkowski Set Out To Photograph The Major Buildings Of Louis Sullivan. The Photographs - Declared By Frank Lloyd Wright, A Protege Of Sullivan's, As The Best Photographs Of A Sullivan Building That I Have Ever Seen - Are Augmented By A Profile Of Sullivan And Excerpts From Sullivan's Writings And Contemporary Sources In An Attempt To Capture The Mind And Spirit Of The Man, And The Time And Place.--book Jacket. Introduction /...

Originally published in 1973, this marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999-with new digital duotones-this volume is now available to a new generation of readers. "This is a picture book, and its first purpose is to provide the material for simple delectation," says Szarkowski in his introduction to this first survey of The Museum of Modern Art's...

This Volume Presents The Essence Of The Work Of The French Photographer, Eugene Atget, In One Hundred Carefully Selected Photographs. John Szarkowski, An Acknowledged Master Of The Art Of Looking At Photographs, Explores In This Book The Unique Sensibilities That Made Atget One Of The Greatest Artists Of The Twentieth Century And An Influence On The Development Of Modern And Contemporary Photography. Szarkowski's Introductory Text And Commentaries Form An Extended Essay On The Remarkable Visual Intelligence...

In commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth, Ansel Adams at 100 presents an intriguing new look at this distinguished photographer's work. The legendary curator John Szarkowski, director emeritus of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art, has painstakingly selected what he considers Adams' finest work and has attempted to find the single best photographic print of each. Szarkowski writes that Ansel Adams at 100 is the product of a thorough review...

William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of color photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at the time, and with the vernacular content of a body of photographs that could have been but definitely weren't some average American's Instamatic...

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...