The Photographer’s Eye

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The Photographer’s Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic–an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. In line with a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Up to date Art in 1964, and firstly published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It’s now to be had again to a new generation of photographers and lovers of photography in this duotone printing that closely follows the original. Szarkowski’s compact text eloquently complements skillfully selected and sequenced groupings of 172 photographs drawn from all of the history and range of the medium. Celebrated works by such masters as Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Steichen, Strand, and Weston are juxtaposed with vernacular documents and even amateur snapshots to analyze the fundamental challenges and opportunities that every one photographers have faced. Szarkowski, the legendary curator who worked on the Museum from 1962 to 1991, has published many influential books. But none more radically and succinctly demonstrates why–as U.S. News & World Report put it in 1990–“whether Americans understand it or not,” his thinking about photography “has transform our thinking about photography.”

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