The photographs of John Szarkowski, a native of Wisconsin, returned with great applause on Thursday, Sept. 29.

Thanks to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum and its Photography Council, the retrospective of Szarkowski’s photographs has come to fruition. Seventy graceful, black-and-white images that span Szarkowski’s career are now on display for the first time side by side, and it seems only fitting that it take place in his native state.