Mirrors and Windows

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Mirrors and Windows
American Photography since 1960
by John Szarkowski
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V "In this book I hope to provide a balanced but critically fo-
¦f cused view of the art of photography as it has evolved in the
' United States during the past two decades," writes John
Szarkowski, Director of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modem Art. He sees a divergence between those who view art as a mirror, reflecting a portrait of the artist who made it, and those who view it as a window, through which one may better know the world.
Szarkowski has selected 127 works which he considers exemplary of the new photography. Represented are such established figures as Paul Caponigro, Judy Dater, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, Helen Levitt, and Garry Winogrand, as well as a group of less well known artists such as Gary Beydler, Frank Gohlke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Misrach, and Eve Sonneman.
The author cites two basic influences from the fifties: Minor White's editorial... Tovább

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Mirrors and Windows
American Photography since 1960
by John Szarkowski
¦
i
V "In this book I hope to provide a balanced but critically fo-
¦f cused view of the art of photography as it has evolved in the
' United States during the past two decades," writes John
Szarkowski, Director of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modem Art. He sees a divergence between those who view art as a mirror, reflecting a portrait of the artist who made it, and those who view it as a window, through which one may better know the world.
Szarkowski has selected 127 works which he considers exemplary of the new photography. Represented are such established figures as Paul Caponigro, Judy Dater, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, Helen Levitt, and Garry Winogrand, as well as a group of less well known artists such as Gary Beydler, Frank Gohlke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Misrach, and Eve Sonneman.
The author cites two basic influences from the fifties: Minor White's editorial direction of Aperture and Robert Frank's book of photographs The Americans, characterizing opposite modes of the new photography. Other phenomena that have affected the medium since 1960 include the demise of the picture magazine, the decline in opportunities for the professional photographer, the explosive growth of photographic education, and the increasing recognition of the photographic potentials of color.
John Szarkowski is also the author of Looking at Photographs , described by Hilton Kramer of The New York Times as a "connoisseur's anthology of superlative photographic accomplishment."
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART I 11 West 53 Street, New York, New York 10019
Distributed by New York Graphic Society, Boston
isbn 0-87070-476-1 Vissza