Wikio - John Szarkowski

Sideshow Bob (Crooked Timber)

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:26:10 GMT

... to a need for new outlets for the connoiseur’s passion and institutional hype from curators like John Szarkowski at MoMa and critics like Sontag). (When I bought the book on a recommendation, I hadn’t realised that it had only recently come out. In fact the story is still short of a denoument as Okie, the Nigerian dealer from whom Langmuir bought the trunk, is suing on the grounds...

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I Like Your Shoes, Can I Follow You? (KnowHR Blog)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:34:07 GMT

... I understand that certain people have an influence on the certain worlds more than others, like John Szarkowski did for photography and a hundred other examples in theory, but ideas that are never said have no impact anyways. Get something on paper and don’t be afraid of spouting out ideas. Anybody can learn a program or cut sheets of paper but being able to creatively think is paramount....

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Photo Books: How Many Images? (Joe Reifer - Words)

Tue, 06 May 2008 03:13:23 GMT

... Show / Helen Levitt. About 109 photos. Most on facing pages. No captions. Short 1 page forward by John Szarkowski. 9.5×9.0″ The Americans / Robert Frank. About 86 photos. Intro by Jack Kerouac. Captions at end. 9.5×8.5″ Bravo 20 / Richard Misrach. About 35 photos. First 50 pages are the story written by Myriam Weisang Misrach. Mix of single and facing pages. 9×12″ Occupied Territory...

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Blur (Light reading)

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:11:00 GMT

... were doing—who "had the advantage of having nothing to unlearn," as the curator and photographer John Szarkowski once put it. These photographers made mistakes. One scholar of the snapshot has catalogued the classic ones, including a tilted horizon, unconventional cropping, eccentric framing, a distant subject, blur, double exposure, light leaks, a finger over the lens, banality,...

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"Writing" by Robert Adams (Thinking About Art)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:00:00 GMT

... It is self-effacing, devoted to establishing the adequacy of the art without the writing. John Szarkowski described an appropriate measure for critical writing; “The better the writing is the more necessary it makes the picture.” There are only a few commentators who can do that – Robert Hughes, for instance, and Szarkowski himself. Several important artists have been effective...

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Photographic education in Britain in the 1980s (D'log :: blogging no)

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:08:24 GMT

The full text of Simon Watney's searing 2006 essay Tunnel vision: photographic education in Britain in the 1980s… “a blanket critique of photographic modernism was based on highly selective accounts of the history of the work of John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, regardless of the fact that the UK lacked [...]

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Blog: Consumptive (Spitting Image)

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:03:25 GMT

... who makes them - who remains, of course, the most interesting and dependable link in the system. - John Szarkowski, from Looking at Photographs /The mistress of this world has no name. - Frederick Sommer ~~~~~~~(Stubbornson) I picture a kitchen table under a bright flourescent ceiling fixture. Under it sits a table filled to overflowing with all manner and sizes of photographs. From...

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School and some tunes (Esprit de L'Escalier)

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:11:51 GMT

... a book on Louis Sullivan . It was fairly divine. (I'm completely in love with the book, and John Szarkowski's photography.) My commute to school begins early and I've becoming used to watching the sun rise. Below are some songs that I am currently loving on my (long) commute. I'm totally obsessed with this new song from Spoon , "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb" and am very sad that a good...

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John Szarkowski, reshaped world of photography, dies at 81 (Seattle Times)

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:02:58 GMT

John Szarkowski, who created a fresh vision of the art of photography during his long tenure as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, died...

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Silas makes his point (Belltown Bent)

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:51:16 GMT

I'm still thinking about John Szarkowski, and his gifts to the world of photography. Especially his notion that photographers are pointers. They want to show you what they saw, asynchronously. First, capture the moment. Then, find the memory in the...

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Ruth Stone succeeds Grace Paley as Vermont State... (Silliman's Blog)

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:30:00 GMT

... music career of Mingering Mike § When Nessum Dorma became Messum Dorma § Photography curator John Szarkowski has died § Ladies who launch Chez Bushwick § American Art 2.0 § The Berlin art scene as viewed from LA § Creativity & madness, the latest round § Freeman Dyson on Biotech

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John Szarkowski, the great hidden influence on photography. (Slate Magazine)

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:38:45 GMT

... to be amateurs or semi-pros at the art they're evaluating: , for example, or . And then there was John Szarkowski, who died last Saturday at the age of 81 and who probably had as much sway over the history of photography as anyone ever did. In recent years, anyway, Susan Sontag was photography's most famous critic, and Sam Wagstaff was the greatest collector, but Szarkowski...

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John Szarkowski -- curator influential in photography (BigBlog.com: Breaking News)

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:49:10 GMT

John Szarkowski, the longtime director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York who was a dominant figure in the establishment of photography as an art form, has died. He was 81.

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Appreciations: John Szarkowski (New York Times)

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:36:35 GMT

John Szarkowski, the photography curator who died on Saturday at age 81, was changed by what he saw and showed us how to be changed, too.

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John Szarkowski -- curator influential in photography (San Fransisco Chronicle)

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT

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John Szarkowski (1925-2007) (Conscientious)

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:50:46 GMT

"John Szarkowski, a curator who almost single-handedly elevated photography's status in the last half-century to that of a fine art, making his case in seminal writings and landmark exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died in on Saturday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 81." - NY Times obituary...

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