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

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Source : Beaumont Newhall (1984). “In plain sight: the photographs of Beaumont Newhall”

Beaumont Newhall

#Photography Quotes #Important Quotes #Historian Quotes

“But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.”
“What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?”
“Nobody can teach me who I am.”
“Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.”
“Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
“I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and it seemed to me a child would try to understand it through stories and games, which distort and change the experience, then become the experience.”

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