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…
Looking at Photos the Master Never Saw A new exhibition of Garry Winogrand’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes many photographs developed after his death. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/arts/design/when-images-come-to-life-after-death.html “To expose film is not quite to photograph,” Mr. Szarkowski, who died in 2007, said. How can an artist evaluate his photographs, correct his working methods…
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…
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect to be release on technicality, after EUFOR killed his wife and injured his 11-year-old son in the initial raid Photoshop plug-ins that mimic ye olde film look NYT: Photographer John Szarkowski
