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Photography Until Now by John Szarkowski: MoMA’s Definitive Photography History

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Explore John Szarkowski’s Photography Until Now (1989)—MoMA’s landmark exhibition and book. Discover its technological framework, critical reception, and…

Categories History of Photography, Must read books for photographers Tags 19th Century Photography, 20th Century Photography, John Szarkowski, Modernism, MoMA, Vernacular Photography

Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski: 100 Pictures from MoMA’s Collection

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Deep dive into John Szarkowski’s 1973 masterwork Looking at Photographs from MoMA’s collection. Learn how this book taught America to see photography as…

Categories Must read books for photographers, Photobooks, Theory of Photography Tags 20th Century Photography, Conceptual Photography, John Szarkowski, Modernism, MoMA, Vernacular Photography

New Documents Exhibition (1967): Szarkowski’s Turning Point at MoMA

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The New Documents exhibition opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on February 28, 1967. John Szarkowski, the museum’s director of photography, showed 94 prints by three … Read more

Categories Documentary Photography, Exhibitions, History of Photography Tags Diane Arbus, John Szarkowski, MoMA

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