Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.
Beaumont NewhallDocumentary 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.
Beaumont NewhallIf the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
Beaumont NewhallThe present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.
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