John Szarkowski - Mirrors and windows (1978) PDF

In 1978 John Szarkowski curated Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960 at the Museum of Modern Art; in the same year the exhibition catalogue was published as a book of the same name (1). The exhibition explored Szarkowski’s theory that by the late nineteen seventies photography in America had moved from being concerned with public to private issues. He believed that the photographs of the preceding twenty years could be seen either as mirrors which he described as being a “romantic expression of the photographer’s sensibilities” or windows “through which the exterior world is explored in all its presence and reality”

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