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The Photographer's Eye Paperback - 2007

by John Szarkowski (); Lee Friedlander (Photographer); Walker Evans (Photographer)

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An investigation of what photographs look like, and of why they look that way. Includes index.

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A bestselling and indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography, from the legendary MoMA director and curator John Szarkowski

The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available 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 the entire 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 all photographers have faced. Szarkowski, the legendary curator who worked at 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 know it or not," his thinking about photography "has become our thinking about photography."

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  • Title The Photographer's Eye
  • Author John Szarkowski (); Lee Friedlander (Photographer); Walker Evans (Photographer)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprinted
  • Pages 156
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Publication date 2007-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780870705274 / 087070527X
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 8.54 x 0.51 in (22.73 x 21.69 x 1.30 cm)
  • Category Photography
  • Library of Congress subjects Photography, Artistic
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007282591
  • Dewey Decimal Code 779
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