Newhall, Beaumont. Beaumont Newhall: Colleagues and Friends.

University of New Mexico, 1993. Remembrances of the pioneering historian of photography by family and friends, with selected letters of Newhall to Alfred Stieglitz and photographs by well known figures in the history of photography. The remembrance authors include Virginia Best Adams, Clinton Adams, James and Mary Street Alinder, Dana Asbury, Thomas Barrow, James Borcoman, Peter C. Bunnell, Van Deren and Jean Coke, Carl Chiarenza, Keith F. Davis, James L Enyeart, Milton Esterow, Helmut Gernsheim, Elizabeth Glassman, L.Fritz Gruber, Sarah Greenough, Eugenia Parry Janis, Bill Jay, Harry Lunn, Keith McElroy, et al. Wraps, 60 pages, Fine except crease in corner of rear tissue endpaper, with custom made polyester jacket.  Summary:

Beaumont Newhall: Colleagues and Friends (1993) is a commemorative exhibition catalog published by the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe following the death of the pioneering photo historian and curator Beaumont Newhall in February 1993.

Curated by Steve Yates, the catalog documents a memorial tribute exhibition that ran from April 24 through August 31, 1993, celebrating Newhall's deep personal and professional network, as well as his lasting legacy at the University of New Mexico.

Core Components

• Tributes and Text Contributions: The catalog contains essays, reflections, and texts from some of the most influential figures in modern art and photography who worked alongside Newhall. Contributors include John Szarkowski, Bill Jay, and Alfred H. Barr Jr.

• The Photographic Circle: The publication reproduces a selection of black-and-white photographs by a glittering roster of master photographers who were Newhall's personal friends and professional peers. Featured artists include Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, Van Deren Coke, Lewis Hine, and Alvin Langdon Coburn, alongside photographs taken by Beaumont and his first wife, Nancy Newhall.

• A Celebration of Legacy: The catalog underscores Newhall's dual life as a champion of "straight photography" and an educator. It serves as a tribute to his final career chapter in New Mexico, where he taught as a graduate professor at the University of New Mexico and anchored the history of photography program from 1971 onward.

Rather than a traditional history textbook, Colleagues and Friends functions as an intimate, collective portrait of the 20th-century photographic community. It highlights how Beaumont Newhall was not just a passive chronicler of the medium's history, but a deeply connected figure who helped shape the canon alongside the very artists he wrote about.