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… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and experienced, moments… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
