Word: szarkowski
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...publish or exhibit? "I don't," he says. And he means it. His working method is to take hundreds, even thousands of pictures--though rarely more than one shot of any particular scene--and let his curator or editors sort it out. For "William Eggleston's Guide," John Szarkowski, the legendary MOMA photo curator, effectively served a role like the one that editor Maxwell Perkins played for novelist Thomas Wolfe, drawing a meaningful work out of a superabundant output...
...think of art history as something made chiefly by artists, and it is. But sometimes there are figures from related walks of life whose impact is no less important. One of those was John Szarkowski. For 29 years, starting in 1962, he was chief curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In that role he turned out shows and books that powerfully influenced our understanding of what the camera could do. In particular he championed the groundbreaking work of Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander and William Eggleston, photographers who, as he wrote...
...latest development in a process that began in 1967, when they were both introduced to a wider public in a pivotal MOMA exhibition that was entirely devoted to them and a third relative newcomer, Garry Winogrand. They were by no means artists of the same stripe, but John Szarkowski, who was then MOMA's supremely influential photo curator, rightly saw that all three were turning the practices of documentary photography, as he said simply, "toward more personal ends." What he might have said was that they were entirely discarding the conventions of that kind of photography--easy-to-grasp, socially...