Beaumont Newhall Quotes
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.
It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.
Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.
