February 13, 2010
The Boston Globe
Witnesses to a chaotic world
By Mark Feeney
MEDFORD - Ten days after 9/11, I interviewed John Szarkowski. The occasion was a lecture the longtime head of photography at New York’s Museum of Modern Art would be giving soon at the Museum of Fine Arts. We sat on the porch of Szarkowski’s house, overlooking an apple orchard in the Berkshires. He spoke of Eugene Atget and Ansel Adams, the subjects of his lecture, and, inevitably, the terrorist attacks ...
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