John Szarkowski
John Szarkowski
Thaddeus John Szarkowski was a photographer, curator, historian, and critic. From 1962 to 1991 Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art...
good relative
When you look at a good Ansel Adams photograph, you think you know the temperature, the relative humidity, the month.
I've always been better at photographing things I like than things I don't like,
clouds fact landscapes light nature people
People don't think of landscapes as moving, but they do. The light changes, the clouds move, and that's what Adams' photography is really about -- about the fact that nature is not permanent.
beginning learn magic mostly
I was very young and very stupid. In the beginning it's mostly just the magic of the process. It's not easy. You don't learn overnight.
photography might facts
Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.
photography facts purpose
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
photography cat thinking
What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?
photography shapes lines
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.
photography years done
Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.
photography eye cones
Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.
music simple variation
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
photography ideas interesting
A camera has interesting ideas of its own.
photography may vehicle
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.
photography might vantage-point
Pure photography is a system of picture-making that describes more or less faithfully what might be seen through a rectangular frame from a particular vantage point at a given moment.