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John Szarkowski: Photography's Curator |
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Friday, 13 July 2007 |
 John Szarkowski, called "the single most important curator that photography has ever had" by Vanity Fair in 2005, has died from complications of a stroke. He was 81.
Tags: John Szarkowski, photography curator, Museum of Modern Art
Szarkowski served as director of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art from 1962 to 1991, where he emphasized the "casual, spontaneous nature" of photography. He was also an influential critic, having authored The Photographer's Eye and Looking at Photographs.
For more on Szarkowski, here's a 2006 interview with LA Weekly, an earlier interview published at Amazon.com, and a collection of Szarkowski's photography.
(Photograph by Lee Friedlander.)
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