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The Photographer's Eye

John Szarkowski

BOO 3251 U
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CONDITION & NOTES
Good – Very Good / Exterior has minor shelf and edge wear.
TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Softcover

 2007
EDITION LANGUAGE
First

 English
PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
The Museum of Modern Art 23 x 22 x 1.5 cm
CONDITION
Good – Very Good / Exterior has minor shelf and edge wear.

TYPE
Softcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2007

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English

PUBLISHER
The Museum of Modern Art

DIMENSIONS
23 x 22 x 1.5 cm

ABOUT

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."