Special Exhibitions

A City Seen

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The Catalogue from A City Seen: Photographs from The George Gund Foundation Collection

This exhibition is accompanied by a 180-page book with 134 duotone and 12 color photographs. It contains an essay by John Szarkowski, Director Emeritus, Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A City Seen: Photographs from The George Gund Foundation Collection has been published by the Cleveland Museum of Art and is distributed by D.A.P. The book is available at all Cleveland Museum of Art stores (hardcover $40).

Essay by John Szarkowski

A provocative essay by John Szarkowski introduces this striking and original book about the melding of artistic vision with the character of a multifaceted community. He sketches the history of Cleveland and suggests how these photographs refer not only to time and place, but also to how we arrived at this moment.

John Szarkowski, world-renowned theorist, historian of photography, and important photographer in his own right, served as director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1962 to 1991. He is the organizer of more than one hundred groundbreaking exhibitions, including landmark shows on the work of Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston, Garry Winogrand, and Ansel Adams, and is also the author of The Photographer's Eye, Mirrors and Windows, Photography Until Now, Ansel Adams at 100, and many other critically-acclaimed works on photography. More than any other individual, John Szarkowski has shaped the way we look at and understand photographs.