John Szarkowski
Chicago Auditorium and Michigan Avenue

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Artist John Szarkowski (American, 1925–2007)American, 1925–2007

CultureAmerican

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Chicago Auditorium and Michigan Avenue

Date1954

Place depictedChicago, Illinois, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 13/16 × 12 13/16 in. (27.4 × 32.6 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 12 13/16 in. (27.5 × 32.5 cm)
Mount: 13 9/16 × 14 1/4 in. (34.4 × 36.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.2433

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAlthough John Szarkowski is best known as curator and director (1962–1991) of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he helped to elevate the status of the medium, he was also an accomplished photographer. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships for photography, and his book The Idea of Louis Sullivan is considered one of the key publications on the architect. Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan’s protégé, called Szarkowski’s photographs the best taken of Sullivan’s work.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Marked in pencil, recto, below image: "7 3/4"
Right side, reading vertically: "6 1/2 inches"
Pencilled arrows at 3 corners

In pencil, verso of mount, upper left corner: "John Szarkowski"

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