biography
| name: |
Szarkowski, (Thaddeus) John
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pronunciation:
[sah(r)kofskee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Museum curator and photohistorian, born in Ashland, Wisconsin, USA. A professor of art history and photography at Albright College in Buffalo, he won a Guggenheim (1954) to do a photographic study of architect Louis Sullivan. Director at the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (1962–91), he wrote books to establish criteria for evaluating the seemingly casual snapshot photographs of renegades like Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, and he exhibited their work. |
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