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Beaumont Newhall (June 22, 1908 - February 26, 1993) was an American photography historian, curator, and critic, widely regarded as one of the most important photography theorists and historians of the 20th century. His work spanned various aspects of photography, from criticism to museum curation.

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“The remarkable photographs by Craig Varjabedian are not only beautiful but also extremely valuable documents of architecture, culture, and lifestyle . . .”

Photography New Mexico Santa Fe Fine Art Photography

Book:From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography

Source: From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern Photography

“The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.”

Form Challenges Photographer Significance

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“It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.”

Has Beens Important Photography Historian

Book:In plain sight: the photographs of Beaumont Newhall

Source: In plain sight: the photographs of Beaumont Newhall

“Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.”

World Giving Facts Use Modern Approach Definitions Artistic Faculty Documentaries Modern World Walt

Book:The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

Source: The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

“Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.”

Ifs World Common Millions Events Strange Property Photograph Disaster Odd Peculiar Exotic Unfamiliar Momentary

Author:Beaumont Newhall

“Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.”

Years Has Beens Moments Records Seeing Photography Flow Experiments Significance Documents Journal

Book:In plain sight: the photographs of Beaumont Newhall

Source: In plain sight: the photographs of Beaumont Newhall

“The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.”

People Belief Photography Fundamentals Photograph Architecture Authenticity Melancholy

Book:The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

Source: The history of photography: from 1839 to the present

“If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.”

Ifs Photography Photograph Faithful Historian Being Faithful

Author:Beaumont Newhall

“More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.”

“We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.”

Photography Unusual Usual Not Interested

Author:Beaumont Newhall

About the Author

Born: June 22, 1908
Died: February 26, 1993
Known for: Curator
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