Newhall, Beaumont. Photography: A Short Critical History, 1839-1937 by Beaumont Newhall. Signed Copy Picture America is celebrated as

Picture America is celebrated as a high-water mark for the photo-text genre

painterly printing processes—such as platinum and bromoil—and his deep fascination with the intersection of photography and fine art principles

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Newhall, Beaumont. Photography: A Short Critical History, 1839-1937 by Beaumont Newhall. Signed Copy Picture America is celebrated asNY: Museum of Modern Art, 1938. One of 3,000 copies. Second revised edition of Newhall's 1937 history of photography, entitled Photography, 1839 1937, issued as the catalog for the survey exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, for which Newhall was unable to get the participation of Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz was pleased with Newhall's curatorial efforts and the 1938 edition includes a frontispiece by Stieglitz, whose late endorsement of Newhall had