Beaumont Newhall Quotes
If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
Quotes to Explore
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Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
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Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
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Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.
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Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
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I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.
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I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.
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There is no special way a photograph should look.
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If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.
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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.
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A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.
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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.
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One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.
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My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant
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A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
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You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire
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Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.
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Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.
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Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
