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# Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

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## Customer Reviews

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    What a private tour of MOMA's photo collection might be like
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 25, 2010*

I also came to know of this book from Mike Johnston's "The Online Photographer" blog.  Reading this book is like having a personal non-hurried guided tour of 100 significant works at MOMA by an expert curator.The subjects of the discussion of each image is not identical for each one.  In most discussions we learn about the history of the photographer.  More words are probably used to discuss each photographer's history than anything else.  The curator's discussion of why the image is significant, why it works etc, is less even with some images getting a greater discussion about this than others.If indeed I had had a long private tour of these images with Mr. Szarkowski I would have asked more questions about why the individual images "worked" than what the author covered in his discussions. OTOH, since I'm somewhat lazy about visiting museums (and I live in NYC!) reading this book is equal or better than a long day trip to the museum. I certainly came away knowing more than when I started this book.

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    Mostly about the historical development of photography and very little about the aesthetics of the images included
  

*by H***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2009*

I found the title and editorial description rather misleading: "A visually splendid album, the book is both a treasury of remarkable photographs and a lively introduction to the aesthetics and the historical development of photography."I found the book disappointingly short on the aesthetics part.  The book contains 100 photographs and a short essay/note on each of them. Now, most of the text is actually about the background of the photograph. Mostly about the photographer and situation photographed and some on the printing process employed. Generally only the last paragraph is devoted to some comments on the image itself. I really expected to learn more about Szarkowski's thoughts on the images as such.The book is much better on the historical part. The essays are quite enjoyable and have given me a small background knowledge of the historical development of photography. There is something about the authors lucid style of writing that appeals to me, and seduced me to actually complete the read and rather enjoy it even though it turned out to be very different from what I expected.The historical part deserves a 5 star rating, however both the title and editorial description suggests a more comprehensive treatment of the aesthetical part. I therefore give it a 3 star rating.

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    Superb critique of photography through history
  

*by T***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2014*

"The critic's job is to place the particular example in the larger context."  This book is a brilliant example.  Szarkowski here lovingly selects one photograph from each of 100 photographers -- 100 photos from the MOMA collection -- to illustrate the serpentine history of photography.  Some of the photos are extraordinary, others are mundane, but so is the chaotic field of photography.  This handsome book hints at the depth and breadth of the solutions to the question of what is significant in pictures.  I have poured over this book again and again.  I have lent it to friends.  I discover surprises every time I open it. You can read this book for the perceptive essays or you can just look at the pictures.  This book satisfies on both counts.

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