Photography Until Now by John Szarkowski: MoMA’s Definitive Photography History
Explore John Szarkowski’s Photography Until Now (1989)—MoMA’s landmark exhibition and book. Discover its technological framework, critical reception, and…
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Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski: 100 Pictures from MoMA’s Collection
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…
The Bitter Years (1962): FSA Photography’s Defining Exhibition
How Edward Steichen’s 1962 MoMA exhibition transformed FSA Depression photos into art, creating documentary photography’s most influential museum show.
Mirrors and Windows (1978): American Photography’s Identity Crisis
Explore John Szarkowski’s influential Mirrors and Windows 1978 exhibition at MoMA—the framework that defined American photography’s subjective vs objective…
Famous Contemporary Photographers That You Really Have to Know
Cindy Sherman (b. 1954, American) Cindy Sherman is an American photographer known for her self-portraits in which she assumes a variety of personas and explores themes of identity, gender, and … Read more
Eugène Atget: Photographer of Old Paris, His Life and Work
Eugène Atget (1857–1927) spent more than thirty years photographing Paris and its surroundings, and he made perhaps 10,000 photographs, according to the Museum of Modern Art. Almost nobody outside a … Read more
Shamoon Zamir on The Family of Man as Exhibition (2018): Summary
Summary of Shamoon Zamir’s essay on The Family of Man exhibition: rhyme, association, visitor participation and the lynching photograph.
MoMA Photography | A Snapshot of Excellence
In the heart of the city that never sleeps, the MoMA Photography department stands as a beacon of innovation and creativity. It’s a place where moments are captured, history is … Read more
Jacques Henri Lartigue: Life, Work and the 1963 MoMA Show
Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894–1986) was a French photographer, painter and diarist who began photographing as a child and became widely known only in 1963, when the Museum of Modern Art … Read more
New Documents Exhibition (1967): Szarkowski’s Turning Point at MoMA
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