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'''John Szarkowski''' (b. December [[1925]], [[Ashland, Wisconsin|Ashland]], [[Wisconsin]]) is an influential [[photography]] [[curator]], historian, and critic. He is also a photographer. From [[1962]] to [[1991]] Szarkowski was the Director of Photography at [[New York City|New York]]'s [[Museum of Modern Art]].
He grew up in the small northern Wisconsin city of Ashland, and became interested in photography at age eleven. In [[World War II]] Szarkowski served in the [[U.S. Army]], after which he graduated in [[1948]] in [[Art History]] from the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison|University of Wisconsin]]. He then began his career as a museum photographer at the [[Walker Art Center]], [[Minneapolis]]. At this time he was also a practicing art photographer; he had his first solo show at the Walker Art Center in [[1949]], the first of a number of solo exhibitions. In [[1954]] Szarkowski received the first of two [[Guggenheim]] fellowships, resulting in the book ''The Idea of [[Louis Sullivan]]'' ([[1956]]). Between [[1958]] and [[1962]] he returned to rural Wisconsin. There he undertook a second Guggenheim fellowship in [[1961]], researching into ideas about wilderness and the relationship between people and the land.
Then, in [[1962]], he was personally picked by [[Edward Steichen]] to be Steichen's successor at the Museum of Modern Art. When he arrived in New York, not a single gallery in the city showed [[fine art photography]]. He launched the careers of [[Garry Winogrand]], [[Diane Arbus]], and [[Lee Friedlander]].
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