Beaumont Newhall papers, 1934-1954.

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Beaumont Newhall papers, 1934-1954.

Documents early Library history and the creation of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art. The entire collection consists of administrative papers of the Library from 1934 to 1954, as well as correspondence between MoMA Librarian Beaumont Newhall and photographer Ansel Adams, tracing the establishment and development of the Department of Photography from 1938 to 1945.

0.5 linear feet (1 box)

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Dept. of Photography

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Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984

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Ansel Adams, American photographer, was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was tutored privately at home where he studied piano, San Francisco, from 1914 to 1927, then studied photography with the photofinisher Frank Dittman, in San Francisco, in 1916 and 1917. He married Virginia Best in 1928, and had two children, Michael and Anne. Adams began his career as a photographer, 1927, and worked as a commercial photographer, from 1930 to 1960. He was a photography correspond...

Museum of modern art New York, N.Y., Library

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Collecting area: Material relating to the history of the Museum of Modern Art, and to modern art and artists from 1880 to the present. The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929. Its interpretation of art is very broad, encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, photography, film, architecture, and design from the late 19th century on. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155499724 ...

Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993

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Beaumont Newhall, the founder of the art history of photography, was the first Curator of Photography at MOMA and then at George Eastman House. He authored numerous books, articles and reviews about photography. From the description of Beaumont and Nancy Newhall papers, 1843-1993. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79626249 Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) was an art administrator and art historian from Rochester, N.Y. From the description of Oral histor...