The Idea of Louis Sullivan

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Photographs by John Szarkowski,

Introduction by Terence Riley

Bulfinch Press

Due/Published September 2000, 184 pages, cloth

ISBN 0821226673

In the early 1950s, having just received a Guggenheim Fellowship, John Szarkowski set out to photograph the major buildings of Louis Sullivan. The photographs - declared by Frank Lloyd Wright, a protege of Sullivan's, as "the best photographs of a Sullivan building that I have ever seen" - are augmented by a profile of Sullivan and excerpts from Sullivan's writings and contemporary sources in an attempt to capture the mind and spirit of the man, and the time and place.