The Photographer's Eye - Hardcover

Szarkowski, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870705253 ISBN 13: 9780870705250

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 1980

Synopsis

The Photographer's Eye. Text by John Szarkowski. 172 black and white photographs printed in gravure (Lee Friedlander, Edward Weston, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank, Richard Avedon, Henri Lartigue, Otto Steinert, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Garry Winograd, Minor White, Dorothea Lange, Mario Giacomelli, Henri Cartier-Bresson, et al. along with vernacular documents and photos by unknown photographers) 8vo. pp. 156. . Ottimo (Fine). Impercettibile strappo riparato sul retro della sovracoperta (Imperceptible tear repaired on the back of the dustjacket). . [Parr, Badger, 2006]. This book is an investigation of what photographs look like, and of why they look that way. It is concerned with photographic style and with photographic tradition: with the sense of possibilities that a photographer today takes to his work.

About this title

About the Author:

John Szarkowski is Director Emeritus of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art. He was Director of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art for twenty-nine years, from 1962 to 1991. His thinking about photography, US News & World Report said in 1990, 'whether Americans know it or not, has become our thinking about photography.' In addition to The Photographer's Eye, Szarkowski is the author of numerous books about the medium, including Looking at Photographs (1974), still required reading for photography students.

About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0870705253
• ISBN 13: 9780870705250
• Binding: Hardcover