Proposition: John Szarkowski Was The Most Important Post-War American Photographer

An insightful critic as well as a visionary curator, Szarkowski filled New York’s Museum of Modern Art with the colour photography of William Eggleston, and championed the transgressive work of Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. Everyone who cares about photography is in his debt, including Bill Brandt who he championed at the MoMA.