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The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

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It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

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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.

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Beaumont Newhall

Beaumont Newhall

Born: June 22, 1908
Died: February 26, 1993 (aged 84)
Bio: Beaumont Newhall was an American curator, art historian, writer, and photographer. His book The History of Photography remains one of the most significant accounts in the field and has become a classic photographic history textbook.
Known for:
  1. Photography and the book (1983)
  2. Historia de La Fotografia
  3. The Daybooks of Edward Weston (1960)

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