Remembering John Szarkowski in His Own Words
Friday, July 13th, 2007(Update: If you are reading this through a feed reader, the quotes might not show up correctly. Not all feed readers correctly interpret javascipt. Please visit the FocalPower blog to view the quotes.)
On July 9th, the photography community lost a great visionary that helped to shape and define the idea of photographic art back in the 60’s and 70’s. John Szarkowski passed away due to complications from a stroke. Mr. Szarkowski is best know as the Director of Photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (serving from 1962 to 1991). In this role, he helped to increase the awareness of photography as art and helped to increase the public awareness of great photographers such as Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand.
You can read more about Mr. Szarkowski at
- New York Times article John Szarkowski, Curator of Photography, Dies at 81
- Wikipedia entry for John Szarkowski
In remembrance of Mr. Szarkowski, the FocalPower team wanted to share all the quotes of his that we currently has in our Quote Archive:
As a fellow Wisconsin native and photographer, I wish to say thank you to Mr. Szarkowski for all he did to help advance the art of photography. And through the FocalPower Quote Archive, his words will continue to be shared with thousands of people around the world daily.
Thanks to Andrew Ferguson for originally sharing this news.
