Beaumont Newhall
Contributor
LOCATION: Santa Fe, NM, United States
Visiting Professor of Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1971–84. Director, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, 1958–71. Author of The History of Photography; Latent Image; and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
History of photography, method of recording the image of an object through the action of light, or related radiation, on a light-sensitive material. The word, derived from the Greek photos (“light”) and graphein (“to draw”), was first used in the 1830s. This article treats the historical and…
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