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> [It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beaumont-newhall/it-has-been-important-to-me-as-an-historian-of-photography-to/)

[Beaumont Newhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beaumont-newhall/)

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## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beaumont-newhall/documentary-is-therefore-an-approach-which-makes-use-of-the-artistic/)

[Beaumont Newhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beaumont-newhall/the-fundamental-belief-in-the-authenticity-of-photographs-explains/)

[Beaumont Newhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beaumont-newhall/more-and-more-are-turning-to-photography-as-a-medium-of-expression-as/)

[Beaumont Newhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beaumont-newhall/)

> [The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beaumont-newhall/the-present-challenge-to-the-photographer-is-to-express-inner/)

[Beaumont Newhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beaumont-newhall/over-the-years-photography-has-been-to-me-what-a-journal-is-to-a/)

[Beaumont Newhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beaumont-newhall/wherever-there-is-disaster-the-newsman-is-there-if-he-cannot-find/)

[Beaumont Newhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beaumont-newhall/)

> [If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beaumont-newhall/if-the-historian-will-be-faithful-to-the-photograph-the-photograph/)

[Beaumont Newhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beaumont-newhall/)

> [We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beaumont-newhall/we-are-not-interested-in-the-unusual-but-in-the-usual-seen-unusually/)

[Beaumont Newhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beaumont-newhall/)

> [It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beaumont-newhall/it-has-been-important-to-me-as-an-historian-of-photography-to/)

[Beaumont Newhall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beaumont-newhall/)

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