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Thaddeus John Szarkowski, born in 1925, grew up in Wisconsin and majored in Art History at the University of Wisconsin. A photographer himself, he became interested in writing and thinking about the work of other photographers. He was named Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in 1962, and during almost thirty years in that position arranged more than a hundred shows of photography. He published The Photographer’s Eye in 1966, Looking at Photographs in 1973, and Mirrors and Windows in 1978. Szarkowski championed the work of Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, and William Eggleston among others, and in the process taught many others to examine the formal qualities of images rather than their intentions or their possible uses.
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