2012 reprint edition
Medium format paperback in fine condition
About
The Photographer’s Eye is a seminal 1966 photography book and exhibition catalog by John Szarkowski, the legendary Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Based on a groundbreaking 1964 exhibition, the book isolates the formal visual language unique to the medium of photography. Unlike painting, which is “made” by adding elements to a blank canvas, Szarkowski famously argues that a photograph is “taken” through a process of radical selection from an existing reality
