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. — 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
