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John Szarkowski

American, 1925–2007

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Thaddeus John Szarkowski was an American photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the director of photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

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Works in Collection

40 works
Baldwin, Heavy Crop

Baldwin, Heavy Crop

John Szarkowski

2001

Carson Pirie Scott (Schlesinger-Meyer), Chicago

Carson Pirie Scott (Schlesinger-Meyer), Chicago

John Szarkowski

1954

Chicago Auditorium, Masonry, Congress Street

Chicago Auditorium, Masonry, Congress Street

John Szarkowski

1954

Feast of St. Nickolas, St. Michael's, Minneapolis

Feast of St. Nickolas, St. Michael's, Minneapolis

John Szarkowski

1957

Flag, Fourth of July

Flag, Fourth of July

John Szarkowski

1997

Folly with Trimmings

Folly with Trimmings

John Szarkowski

2001

Folly, Easter Morning

Folly, Easter Morning

John Szarkowski

2001

From Country Elevator, Red River Valley

From Country Elevator, Red River Valley

John Szarkowski

1957

Garrick (Schiller) Theater, Chicago

Garrick (Schiller) Theater, Chicago

John Szarkowski

1954

General Garrard House, Lake Pepin

General Garrard House, Lake Pepin

John Szarkowski

1954

Grain Elevators II

Grain Elevators II

John Szarkowski

1949

Guaranty (Prudential) Building, Buffalo, Corner Column

Guaranty (Prudential) Building, Buffalo, Corner Column

John Szarkowski

1951-52

Guaranty (Prudential) Building, Buffalo, Profile

Guaranty (Prudential) Building, Buffalo, Profile

John Szarkowski

1952-53

Jan in Ashland

Jan in Ashland

John Szarkowski

1953

Mathew Brady and Lake Superior

Mathew Brady and Lake Superior

John Szarkowski

1959

Mathew Brady in the Backyard I

Mathew Brady in the Backyard I

John Szarkowski

1952

Mathew Brady in the Backyard II

Mathew Brady in the Backyard II

John Szarkowski

1953

Mr. Bristol's Barn 1

Mr. Bristol's Barn 1

John Szarkowski

1991

Mr. Bristol's Barn 19

Mr. Bristol's Barn 19

John Szarkowski

1993

Mr. Bristol's Barn 28

Mr. Bristol's Barn 28

John Szarkowski

c. 1990

Mr. Bristol's Barn 3

Mr. Bristol's Barn 3

John Szarkowski

c. 1991

Mr. Bristol's Barn 4

Mr. Bristol's Barn 4

John Szarkowski

c. 1982

Mr. Bristol's Barn 49

Mr. Bristol's Barn 49

John Szarkowski

1993

Mr. Bristol's Barn 67

Mr. Bristol's Barn 67

John Szarkowski

1994

Exhibitions

84 exhibitions

Nov 26, 1958 – Jan 18, 1959

Photographs from the Museum Collection

273 artists · 1 curator

Nov 18, 1959 – Nov 29, 1959

30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

140 artists

Apr 03, 1962 – May 15, 1962

50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

50 artists · 1 curator

Aug 21, 1962 – Oct 28, 1962

Ernst Haas: Color Photography

1 artist · 2 curators

May 28, 1963 – Jul 21, 1963

Five Unrelated Photographers

5 artists · 1 curator

Jul 01, 1963 – Nov 03, 1963

Photographs by Lartigue

1 artist · 1 curator

Sep 24, 1963 – Dec 01, 1963

The Photographer and the American Landscape

19 artists · 1 curator

May 27, 1964 – Aug 23, 1964

The Photographer's Eye

105 artists · 1 curator

Nov 24, 1964 – Jan 28, 1965

André Kertész

1 artist · 1 curator

Mar 16, 1965 – May 16, 1965

The Photo Essay

67 artists · 2 curators

May 05, 1965 – Jun 27, 1965

Siskind Recently

1 artist · 1 curator

Jun 30, 1965 – Oct 03, 1965

Elliott Erwitt: Improbable Photographs

1 artist · 1 curator

Aug 02, 1965 – Sep 19, 1965

Glamour Portraits

14 artists · 1 curator

Jan 11, 1966 – Apr 10, 1966

The Hampton Album

1 artist · 1 curator

Jan 26, 1966 – Apr 10, 1966

Dorothea Lange

1 artist · 1 curator

Apr 13, 1966 – Jul 04, 1966

Marie Cosindas: Polaroid Color Photographs

1 artist · 2 curators

Jul 07, 1966 – Oct 02, 1966

Bruce Davidson

1 artist · 1 curator

Oct 05, 1966 – Dec 11, 1966

Walker Evans' Subway, 1938–1941

1 artist · 1 curator

Dec 14, 1966 – Feb 12, 1967

From the McAlpin Collection

10 artists · 1 curator

Feb 15, 1967 – Apr 16, 1967

Jerry N. Uelsmann

1 artist · 1 curator

Feb 28, 1967 – May 07, 1967

New Documents

3 artists · 1 curator

Apr 26, 1967 – Jul 16, 1967

A European Experiment

3 artists · 1 curator

Jun 20, 1967 – Sep 11, 1967

Once Invisible

80 artists · 2 curators

Oct 25, 1967 – Jan 31, 1968

Ray K. Metzker

1 artist · 1 curator

Feb 09, 1968 – Mar 31, 1968

Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition

24 artists · 1 curator

Jun 25, 1968 – Sep 02, 1968

Cartier-Bresson

1 artist · 1 curator

Aug 03, 1968 – Sep 29, 1968

My European Trip: Photographs from the Car by Joel Meyerowitz

1 artist · 1 curator

Oct 29, 1968 – Jan 05, 1969

Brassaï

1 artist · 1 curator

Dec 17, 1968 – Mar 10, 1969

Eastern Kentucky and San Francisco: Photographs by William Gedney

1 artist · 1 curator

Sep 15, 1969 – Nov 30, 1969

Bill Brandt

1 artist · 1 curator

Dec 01, 1969 – Mar 24, 1970

Atget

1 artist · 2 curators

Jan 27, 1970 – Apr 13, 1970

Sherman's Campaign: Photographs by George N. Barnard

1 artist · 1 curator

Apr 16, 1970 – Jul 05, 1970

Photography: New Acquisitions

29 artists · 1 curator

May 23, 1970 – Jun 02, 1970

Protest Photographs

1 curator

Sep 22, 1970 – Nov 29, 1970

East 100th Street: Photographs by Bruce Davidson

1 artist · 1 curator

Nov 19, 1970 – Jan 10, 1971

E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits

2 artists · 1 curator

Dec 10, 1970 – Feb 28, 1971

Berenice Abbott

1 artist · 1 curator

Jan 27, 1971 – Apr 12, 1971

Walker Evans

1 artist · 1 curator

Feb 01, 1972 – Mar 05, 1972

Gatherings: Photographs by Lee Friedlander

1 curator

Jun 07, 1972 – Sep 17, 1972

Atget's Trees

1 artist · 1 curator

Nov 07, 1972 – Jan 21, 1973

Diane Arbus

1 artist · 1 curator

Jan 30, 1973 – Apr 29, 1973

From the Picture Press

2 curators

Jul 17, 1973 – Oct 10, 1973

Photography: Recent Acquisitions

23 artists · 1 curator

Oct 22, 1973 – Jan 20, 1974

Unfamiliar Places: A Message from Bill Dane

1 artist · 1 curator

Mar 27, 1974 – May 19, 1974

New Japanese Photography

13 artists · 2 curators

May 01, 1974 – Jun 16, 1974

Jacob Israel Avedon: Photographed by Richard Avedon

1 artist · 2 curators

Jun 17, 1974 – Sep 02, 1974

Photographs from the Harvard Social Ethics Collection

4 artists · 1 curator

Sep 16, 1974 – Oct 20, 1974

Projects: Helen Levitt in Color

1 artist · 1 curator

Dec 06, 1974 – Feb 17, 1975

Lee Friedlander

1 artist · 1 curator

Jan 29, 1975 – Mar 30, 1975

Edward Weston

1 artist

Feb 24, 1975 – May 11, 1975

Josef Koudelka

1 artist · 1 curator

May 19, 1975 – Aug 03, 1975

Irving Penn: Recent Works

1 artist · 1 curator

Mar 16, 1976 – Jun 20, 1976

Photography for Collectors

63 artists · 1 curator

May 24, 1976 – Aug 01, 1976

Photographs by William Eggleston

1 artist · 1 curator

Jul 22, 1976 – Oct 03, 1976

Longer Views: 40 Photographs by Nick Nixon

1 artist · 1 curator

Dec 02, 1976 – Feb 08, 1977

Harry Callahan

1 artist · 1 curator

Jan 10, 1977 – Apr 05, 1977

Tina Modotti

2 artists · 1 curator

Apr 12, 1977 – Jul 10, 1977

Courthouse

14 artists · 1 curator

Jul 18, 1977 – Oct 22, 1977

Photographs by Chauncey Hare

1 artist · 1 curator

Oct 31, 1977 – Jan 29, 1978

Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works

1 artist · 1 curator

May 09, 1978 – Jul 30, 1978

Jerry Dantzic and the Cirkut Camera

1 artist · 1 curator

Jul 26, 1978 – Oct 02, 1978

Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960

101 artists · 1 curator

Aug 07, 1978 – Oct 31, 1978

Art Sinsabaugh: Landscapes

1 artist · 1 curator

Nov 07, 1978 – Feb 04, 1979

Grain Elevators: Photographs by Frank Gohlke

1 artist · 1 curator

Feb 09, 1979 – May 01, 1979

Prairie: Photographs by Robert Adams

1 artist · 1 curator

Sep 05, 1979 – Oct 28, 1979

Ansel Adams and the West

1 artist · 1 curator

Jul 09, 1981 – Oct 04, 1981

American Landscapes

40 artists · 1 curator

Oct 03, 1981 – Jan 03, 1982

The Work of Atget: Old France

1 artist · 1 curator

Oct 14, 1982 – Jan 04, 1983

The Work of Atget: The Art of Old Paris

1 artist · 1 curator

Apr 13, 1983 – Jun 28, 1983

Big Pictures by Contemporary Photographers

33 artists · 2 curators

May 17, 1984

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Photography

1 curator

Sep 12, 1984 – Nov 27, 1984

Irving Penn

1 artist · 1 curator

Nov 15, 1984 – Mar 03, 1985

From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink

25 artists · 1 curator

Mar 14, 1985 – May 14, 1985

The Work of Atget: The Ancien Régime

1 artist · 1 curator

Mar 14, 1985 – May 14, 1985

The Work of Atget: Modern Times

1 artist · 1 curator

May 23, 1985 – Aug 13, 1985

A Personal View: Photography in the Collection of Paul F. Walter

1 artist · 1 curator

Aug 22, 1985 – Dec 03, 1985

New Photography: Zeke Berman, Antonio Mendoza, Judith Joy Ross, and Michael Spano

4 artists · 1 curator

Dec 12, 1985 – Mar 11, 1986

Variants

20 artists · 1 curator

Oct 09, 1986 – Jan 06, 1987

New Photography 2: Philip Lorca di Corcia, Mary Frey, and David Hanson

3 artists · 1 curator

Jan 15, 1987 – Mar 03, 1987

Lartigue: Panoramas of the Twenties

1 artist · 1 curator

Jan 27, 1988 – Apr 19, 1988

The Photographs of Josef Albers: A Selection from the Collection of the Josef Albers Foundation

1 artist · 1 curator

May 15, 1988 – Aug 16, 1988

Garry Winogrand

1 artist · 1 curator

Jul 16, 1988 – Oct 11, 1988

Recent Acquisitions, Photography

1 curator

Jul 20, 1989 – Oct 16, 1989

Siskind from the Collection

1 artist · 1 curator