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The Photographer's Eye
John Szarkowski
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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...
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Lee Friedlander: Self Portrait
John Szarkowski
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Lee Friedlander's surreal sensibility is on full display in this set of photographs, originally published in 1970. Here Friedlander focuses on the role of his own physical presence in his images. He writes: "At first, my presence in my photos was...
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Lee Friedlander: Photographs Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes
Lee Friedlander
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
A natural chronicler of all things uniquely American, photographer Lee Friedlander here puts his lens to the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), designer of many of this country's most iconic public landscapes and the father of North American...
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Arrivals & Departures: The Airport Pictures of Garry Winogrand
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
If Garry Winogrand photographed everything, all the time, as he is famous for having done, his pictures of airports convey, despite their dated hair styles and clothing, the many still very familiar sights and spaces and sensations attached to air...
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Walker Evans & Company
Peter Galassi, Glenn Lowry, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Walker Evans' radical photography of the 1930s demonstrated that unembellished photographic fact could serve as a highly poetic language. These works expanded the potential of the art of photography and at the same time defined a lasting iconography...
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Stems
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
In 1994, suffering from aching knees and painfully concerned about it, Lee Friedlander decided to prepare himself for a sedentary life. He began to pursue the still life as a possibility and maybe a way of photographic life--a dramatic shift for a...
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Lee Friedlander At Work
Richard Benson
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
In the Industrial North at the end of the 1970s, people were at work using hands and machinery to make things we all use. In the mid 80s, in Wisconsin, they built supercomputers; at the same time, near Boston, they typed on desktop computers. In New...
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