books by John Szarkowski

books by John Szarkowski

books:

John Szarkowski

John Szarkowski

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

An excellent re-release.
For those of you who already know Eggleston, there is something in particular to note about this book. I also purchased Eggleston's "The Hasselblad Award 1998," which features a handful of the same shots in Guide. This provided me an opportunity to compare the same ...

The New West: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range

Robert Adams

Aperture, 2008

The (old) new west
The New West is one of the most significant works of photography in the 20th century, presenting the reality of the western landscape in harsh contrast to the mythology of the other Adams... The pictures cut straight to the bone, showing the damage done to a landscape ...

The Face of Minnesota
John Szarkowski

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008

?Ducks in a stream, the bridge at St. Anthony Falls, streets of cities and towns, a fish in a net, the glittering lakes seen under low skies. The Face of Minnesota is a fresh, simple, unpretentious statement of a place and time by people who know what Minnesota is because they live there.? ?Minor White, Aperture , 1958 ?John Szarkowski is the ...

Lee Friedlander: Self Portrait

John Szarkowski

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005

Inspirational
I love this book, a collection of unusual self-portrait work by Lee Friedlander. Often he's only shown as a shadow, or reflection. In many cases, his use of his image is a clever and even humorous comment on the other elements within the photograph. Sometimes, you even ...

Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work

Britt Salvesen

Yale University Press, 2005

Wonderful biography of a gifted artist
This is a wonderful book on the creative life of one of the 20th century's most creative photographic artists. It is so much more than a "mere" biography. What sets this biography (which a generous sampling of Callahan's work) apart from other books in this genre, ...

The Photographer's Eye

John Szarkowski

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007

Photography as Art
Since the beginning of photography, the medium's position as art has been questioned. Much of this skepticism resides in the belief that anyone can make a photograph, whereas a painting takes talent to create. However, the photographer knows better than this. The ...

John Szarkowski: Photographs

John Szarkowski

Bulfinch, 2005

Artful Photographs From a Keen Curator and Photographer
Everyone knows of John Szarkowski as the guru behind the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, but too few realize that beyond his scholarship and contribution to the placement of photography in an equal range as painting and sculpture, ...

Yosemite and the High Sierra

Ansel Adams

Bulfinch, 1994

Excellent, uncompromised beauty
Really great photos of mounatin scapes in and about Yosimite. Waterfalls, forests, mountains and sky. Typical Ansel, most flawless.

Ansel Adams: Classic Images

Ansel Adams, James Alinder, ...

Bulfinch, 1986

An exquisite collection!
This is a wonderful book filled with breathtaking photographs taken by the late and well-respected Ansel Adams. Each of the photographs contained is a unique masterpiece with a life of its own. Looking at these splendid photographs, one feels drawn right in to the ...

Ansel Adams at 100

Ansel Adams, John Szarkowski

Bulfinch, 2003

A pioneer of photography and art
Ansel Adams at 100 by John Szarkowski is a beautiful collection of Adam's finest work. The first fifth of this 191 page book contains a bibliography about Ansel Adams. I was able to read about the trials and tribulations of Adams' family issues, life, and his discovery ...

Russell Lee Photographs: Images from the Russell Lee Photograph Collection at the Center for American History ...

University of Texas Press, 2007

Images for heart and mind
A wonderful large format and beautifully produced book of 140 photos by Russell Lee made more worthy because 101 of them have not been published together in book form. Lee is rightly famous for his FSA work though none of that output is included here. Instead there ...

The Portfolios of Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Bulfinch, 2006

A great collection of images
This book is a compilation of images that Ansel compiled into portfolios, along with a brief introduction by the author. Some of these images can be found in other compilations, but are more powerful here because they are grouped as Ansel chose to group them. Each of ...

Winogrand: Figments From The Real World

John Szarkowski

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003

Winogrand: Figments from the Real World
Gary Winogrand came out of the generation of street photography inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson that included Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, and Joel Meyerowitz. He worked at framing the "decisive moment" as he filled his black and white composition ...

Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960

John Szarkowski

Museum of Modern Art, 1978

Development of photography in 1960s and 1970s
An excellent selection of 127 pictures that seem exemplary of the work of American photographers who have come to attention during that time. Suggests the thesis that there is a fundamental dichotomy in photography of the time between those who think of it as a ...

Harry Callahan: Nature

Sarah Greenough, John Szarkowski

Steidl/Pace/ MacGill Gallery, New York, 2007

A Concise Compilation
Harry Callahan was the most influential and important figure in photography throughout the last half of the 20th century. This edition of his work shows chronologically how Callahan's approach to the medium evolved and changed, while his vision remained ever faithful ...