¡Colores!; The History of Photography: Beaumont Newhall

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · September 5, 1992

The history of photography is Beaumont Newhall! Throughout most of the 20th century he has been a central figure in the movement to have photography recognized as an art form. It might also be said that he created the "history of photography" as a distinct and respected field of study. As a founder and father of the history of photography, photographer, curator, art historian, writer, scholar, teacher and administrator it seems as if there has been more than one Beaumont Newhall. Beginning in 1938 at the Museum of Modern Art, he created the first retrospective exhibition of the 100-year-old art of photography. This ¡Colores! highlights some of Beaumont's experiences of being a lifelong friend, mentor and confidant of many photographers now in the annals of history. Guests: Van Deren Coke, Tom Barrow, Douglas George, David Scheinbaum, Eugenia Parry Janis, Joan Coke.