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Shooting stars

Edit The Miami Herald 03 Jun 2016
Newman longed for the glittering prizes snagged by iconic photographers Edward Steichen and Man Ray, and his big break came in Philadelphia when he was discovered by photographer Alfred Stieglitz and Beaumont Newhall of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The “Arnold Newman ... Stieglitz and Newhall had arranged for a small gallery exhibition for Newman, but his big A-Star-Is-Born moment, as so often happens, didn’t pan out immediately....

An Introduction to Collecting Vintage Photographs

Edit PetaPixel 19 Nov 2015
In 2011, a modern-day treasure hunter was browsing through an antique shop in Fresno, California. Flipping through boxes, he came across an old photograph ... It was an interesting photograph. He paid $2 for it and walked out ... That photo is now worth several million dollars ... For recommended photography books, check out “The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day” by Beaumont Newhall, “A History of Photography ... ....

Imaging our forensic imagination. Intellect/University of Chicago Press 2014

Edit Minds 24 Jun 2015
(Perhaps strangely, the postscript to my book may give you a good quick idea of what it's about....).. POSTSCRIPT ... For me, it’s a salutary confirmation of why I wanted to write this book.   ...   ...   ...  . The latter-day modernists who advocate filter-free purity and simplicity are the ideological descendants of Beaumont Newhall’s ‘straight’ photographers (Newhall 1972 ...   ...   ...   ...  ....

Pictorialist William Mortensen, reviled by Ansel Adams, gets new respect

Edit The Los Angeles Times 11 Mar 2015
Photographer William Mortensen, reviled by Ansel Adams, gets due from 'American Grotesque' and screening at Cinefamily Feral House Books. "Tantric Sorcerer" is a 1932 photograph by William Mortensen. (Feral House Books). By Steve Appleford ... 8 ... He was left unmentioned in an influential book on the history of photography written by Adams' friend Beaumont Newhall, who dismissed Mortensen's work as "perverse." ... On Dec ... --> ... ....

William Mortensen: photographic master at the monster’s ball

Edit The Guardian 06 Oct 2014
The critics Beaumont Newhall and his wife Nancy held the same view. Beaumont consciously excluded Mortensen from his grandiosely titled 1949 book The History of Photography, From 1839 to the Present Day ... Even after Mortensen’s death in 1965 from leukaemia, Group f/64 and their flunkies the Newhalls could not stop talking of their loathing for him....

Minor White's photos get a rare large-scale exhibition at Getty Museum

Edit The Los Angeles Times 26 Jul 2014
Photographer Minor White was a conflicted soul. A seeker who adopted a succession of mystical and spiritual world views ... It was time for him to have a comeback. - Paul Martineau, Getty Museum ... 8 ... -->. In 1953, White's affiliation with the California School of Fine Arts was unceremoniously terminated, and he moved to Rochester at the invitation of photo-historian Beaumont Newhall, curator and later director at the George Eastman House ... 0 ... 8 ... ....
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