Photography Quotes by 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Beaumont Newhall

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

— 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…

— Beaumont Newhall

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

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

— Beaumont Newhall

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

— Beaumont Newhall

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

— Beaumont Newhall