[1992]—Last summer, without much fanfare, John Szarkowski officially retired from his position as the Director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern art, after almost exactly twenty-nine years on the job. His career was thus almost exactly contemporaneous with Johnny Carson’s, and within the small world of art photography he has been almost as much of a one-man show. He leaves behind a legacy and a corpus of writings that have made him, over those three decades, one of the half dozen or so most influential single individuals not only in recent contemporary photography, but in the medium’s entire history....
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