Event overview
This talk reviews the writings of John Szarkowski on photography. As director of the photography department at New York’s Museum of Modern Art from 1962 until 1991, Szarkowski occupied, as one critic has put it, ‘The judgement seat of photography.’ Discussing the work of some of the key photographers Szarkowski championed— Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander— this talk will define some of the core values underpinning his aesthetic and show how such values are rooted in a ‘non-arty’, realist photography, linked to the everyday and commonplace.
Mark Durden is Professor of Photography at University of Wales, Newport. He has published extensively on photography and contemporary art. He is the author of Dorothea Lange for Phaidon (currently in its third edition) and together with David Campbell, co-authored Variable Capital: Art and Consumer Culture, Liverpool University Press, 2007. He is currently editing 50 Key Writers on Photography for Routledge and completing a book on art photography since the 1960s, Photography Today, for Phaidon. Durden is also an artist and (together with David Campbell and Ian Brown) exhibits as Common Culture. Their HD video The New El Dorado was shown to acclaim in Manifesta 8, Murcia, 2010/11.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Mar 2012 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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