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...white sky could be credited with much social commitment. Callahan's desire to rescue one formally perfect image from a thousand failed slices of life seem priestly now, but it must have looked solipsistic then. "His aim," writes MOMA's director of the department of photography, John Szarkowski, "has been not to bend photography to his purposes, but rather to immerse himself in its will-to make himself its instrument and servant." The point is symbolized by an early photograph in the catalogue of Callahan at work, pointing a bellows camera at the reedy edge of Lake Huron...
...youth and they all were uncomfortable about whether what they were doing was art or not. I never was bothered about that, luckily--mencumbered by that nonsense." Evans always had a firm conviction in "straight" photography. His is "cool, precise as a police report, emotionally aloof," according to John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern...
...causing Evans to be the first to go when there was a budget reduction in 1937. Evans was independent, not to be "directed" from above. Later in his 20 years at Fortune, he not only decided what subjects he would photograph but wrote the accompanying captions and stories. Says Szarkowski. "Stryker thought that the unit's function was to help reform the ills of the country, and Evans thought it was an artist's function to describe life. Stryker thought that the meaning of the pictures was clear, and Evans found the best of them inexhaustibly mysterious." Evans would always...
...Szarkowski. 215 pages. Museum of Modern Art. $15. One hundred representative black-and-white pictures from New York's Museum of Modern Art assembled and commented on by the director of the museum's photography department. There is, naturally, a wide choice of subject. The pictures were taken over a period extending roughly from 1850 to the present; the photographers include the likes of Pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Cartier-Bresson, Brassa'i, Robert Doisneau, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon. Szarkowski's pic-ture-by-picture text ranges from brilliant and supple observations to what...
...soaring office building its logical and definitive form. To mark the tooth anniversary of Sullivan's birth, Chicago architects last week were sponsoring a dazzling roundup of his work in Chicago's Art Institute. Based largely on huge blowups from a photo essay by Photographer John Szarkowski (The Idea of Louis Sullivan; University of Minnesota; $10), the exhibition reaffirms the reputation of Sullivan, the man his old pupil, Frank Lloyd Wright, still refers to as Lieber Meister, as the first U.S. poet of the skyscraper...