Although this book is out of print, I've taken just a few moments and discovered that Amazon.com has several copies through their Z-shops. This is a definite find: a must-own, must-read for anyone interested in the history and art of Photography.Newhall was the first curator of the Department of Photography in New York City's Museum of Modern Art and, finally, the founding curator at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y.
This book is a wonderful, charming, fact-filled, incident-filled volume of a life dedicated to creating an Art form, chock full of fascinating reminiscences of the likes of Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and so many others...certainly every important name in Photography during Newhall's lifetime. It is beautifully, gracefully, wittily written and includes letters, diary entries and many, many black & white photographs--some of them personal "snapshots."
Through my own ignorance, I had no idea who Newhall was before I picked up the book (I bought it simply because of the subtitle: "Memoirs of a Life in Photography") and now, because of Newhall's intimate writing style, I feel I "know" a very important adventurer and force in the 20th century art world.
