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Dewey Decimal Number: 770.92273 EAN: 9780893813727 Edition: 2nd ISBN: 0893813729 Label: Aperture Manufacturer: Aperture Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: June 30, 1998 Publisher: Aperture Studio: Aperture Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Nancy Newhall wrote some of the most incisive work ever published on the inner lives of the photographers who shaped the medium. Her friendship with photographers such as Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Helen Levitt, to name a few, lends her writing a vibrancy rarely found in essays on photography. Newhall was one of the few people to gain access to the inner circle--and thoughts--of the imposing Alfred Stieglitz, and her intimate portrait of him, previously unpublished, reveals a man of genius, humor, and kindness. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Great collection of Mid 20th Century Photography WritingNancy Newhall was (and continues to be some 29 years after her accidental death) one of the best writers on photography I have read. She was a confidant of such luminaries as Alfred Stieglitz and Ansel Adams (she was his first biographer), the acting curator of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art in the 1940's, a driving force in the influential magazine and publishing concern Aperture, and an avid writer of photography books. The writings collected in "From ... Read More 
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