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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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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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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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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Having Buzz there is a great achievement, he was on the first moon landing alongside Neil Armstrong, so getting his signature on a beautiful panoramic photograph will be an historical item to treasure.
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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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In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.
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A photograph can look any way.
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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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My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.
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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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When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
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If you hide what you really are, then there's going to be problems in marriage down the road. I don't mind if a girl is aggressive. It's just sex.
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If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting!
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.
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The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.
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If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.
