Szarkowski, John

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
זרקובסקי, ג'ון
Name (Latin)
Szarkowski, John
Other forms of name
Szarkowski, Thaddeus John
Date of birth
1925-12-18
Date of death
2007-07-07
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 110959125
Wikidata: Q1381389
Library of congress: n 50032261
Sources of Information
  • New York times WWW site, July 9, 2007(John Szarkowski; b. Thaddeus John Szarkowski, Dec. 18, 1925, Ashland, Wis.; d. Saturday [July 7, 2007], Pittsfield, Mass., aged 81; curator who almost single-handedly elevated photography's status in the last half-century to that of a fine art, making his case in seminal writings and landmark exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York)
  • His The idea of Louis Sullivan, 1956.
  • His Irving Penn, c1984:t.p. (John Szarkowski) jacket (dir. of Dept. of Photography, Museum of Modern Art; b. 1925)