Beaumont Newhall (1908–1993)

Newhall's history is a broad essay written with a firmly modernist point of view. Newhall's concern is art photography, or at least, as he told me, "...why write about photography that is not beautiful?" My answer is the important role that advertising and other genres of photography have played in our history taken more broadly.

It is important to note that the various printings of this edition are significantly different in image reproduction. This copy printed in the Netherlands has show more excellent reproduction. Another copy with the same ISBN, and apparently from the same plates is on different paper with noticeably inferior reproduction. show less

This is a rather thin book, but it does discuss Beaumont Newhall as a photographer in more detail that I have seen elsewhere, and although it does not offer deep insight into the man, it does offer a reasonable amount of background information considering that his photographic efforts are less in the creative and more along the lines of advancing photography as an art form. The book includes a small number of his photographs, which tend to be design oriented.

Collection of 20th century American photographers

Illustrated with 163 photographic plates (1 in color),Published by Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA, 1949,1st Edition, 1949, Hardcover with Dustjacket,Hardcover with dustjacket. 256 pages. Art historian, Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993), was the first director of the Photography Department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He wrote this comprehensive book in 1949, and it has become a classic in the field of photographic history.It includes photos by Daguerre, Talbot, Brady, Nadar, Muybridge, show more Atget, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, Weston, Hine, Adams, Brassai, Abbott, Brandt, Evans, Lange, Cartier-Bresson, and many more show less