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The Photographer's Eye | 
| Author: John Szarkowski
Creators: Lee Friedlander, Walker Evans, William Klein, Paul Strand
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $16.47
You Save: $8.48 (34%)
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 19006
Media: Paperback
Pages: 156
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 087070527X
Dewey Decimal Number: 779
EAN: 9780870705274
ASIN: 087070527X
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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Product Description
The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available again to a new generation of photographers and lovers of photography in this duotone printing that closely follows the original. Szarkowski's compact text eloquently complements skillfully selected and sequenced groupings of 172 photographs drawn from the entire history and range of the medium. Celebrated works by such masters as Cartier-Bresson, Evans, Steichen, Strand, and Weston are juxtaposed with vernacular documents and even amateur snapshots to analyze the fundamental challenges and opportunities that all photographers have faced. Szarkowski, the legendary curator who worked at the Museum from 1962 to 1991, has published many influential books. But none more radically and succinctly demonstrates why--as U.S. News & World Report put it in 1990--"whether Americans know it or not," his thinking about photography "has become our thinking about photography."
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 An Interesting Read July 25, 2008
Dan Milham (Slidell, La)
This book is instructive by way of example. It has not a lot of text but many interesting photographs in categories. The categories reflect the photographic or artistic value of the chapter.
 Just pictures, little text July 4, 2008
Funes (New York)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is a collection of photographs from the MOMA collection, nothing more. For those (like me) who were expecting insights, comments, knowledge, this is not the book. It's dissapointing.
Disappointing July 1, 2008
NDT (Sydney Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was expecting a book of photographs with accompanying essays on their artistic merit. According to the write up and the first review. I received the book only to find its a collection of mainly classic photographs but mainly well-known photographers, with virtaually no notes, this was quite disappointing. I might also add there are better compilation type photography books on the market.
Smart to have but not A MUST to ... April 5, 2008
Carlos G. Bruno
Once it's not a deep study about B&W pictures - only an abridge of a few very known photos - it is very smart to have in your photography' shelf(ves), but not A MUST to have it.
Definely it's a very good work material for professionals/teachers because there is no explanations why the picture became famous, so, beginners just will fall in love about them by intuition, leaving the technical aspects to be explained/understood later.
Could be 4 stars if it'd more pictures.
 A good overview of B&W photography March 25, 2008
S. Florio (Chicago IL)
I like collections of photos by many different artists, and this book has a good number of diverse pre-1970 photos to browse. There is a minimum of text and that is fine with me. The book's main contribution is that it suggests a means of systematizing photography, by frame, subject, time, details and other aspects, and as such provides a compelling jumping off point from which the aspiring photographer can learn the art of photography. Good value for the money as well.
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