The Exhibit That Transformed Photography – The New Yorker

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The Exhibit That Transformed Photography

On the fiftieth anniversary of MOMA’s landmark “New Documents” show, a new book provides the exhibition catalogue that never was.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-exhibit-that-transformed-photography?mbid=rss

At the end of his career, John Szarkowski, the legendary curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, quipped that Arbus, Friedlander, and Winogrand sounded more like the name of a law firm than like the names of the artists he first exhibited in 1967, in his influential show “New Documents.”