Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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:
- Photography and the book (1983)
- Historia de La Fotografia
- The Daybooks of Edward Weston (1960)