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Was John Szarkowski the most influential person in 20th-century photography? | Sean O’Hagan

Sean O’Hagan: An insightful critic as well as a visionary curator, Szarkowski filled New York’s Museum of Modern Art with the colour photography of William Eggleston, and championed the transgressive work of Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander

via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jul/20/john-szarkowski-photography-moma

An insightful critic as well as a visionary curator, Szarkowski filled New York’s Museum of Modern Art with the colour photography of William Eggleston, and championed the transgressive work of Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. Everyone who cares about photography is in his debt