Informazioni generali

Nome legale: Newhall, Nancy Wynne
Data di nascita: 1908-05-09
Data di morte: 1974-07-07
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Luogo di morte: Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA
Luogo di residenza: New York, New York, USA
Istruzione: Smith College
Attività lavorative: photography critic
conservationist
editor
Relazioni: Newhall, Beaumont (spouse)
Organizzazioni: Art Students League
Sierra Club
Breve biografia: Nancy Newhall, née Wynne, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. She attended Smith College and became a member of the Art Students League in New York City. She married Beaumont Newhall, curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and substituted for him in that role during his military service in World War II. In the 1940s, she wrote essays on popular art and culture for small magazines and journals.

In 1945, she wrote the text for a book of photographs, Time in New England, by Paul Strand, which began a new phase in her career -- she became a vocal proponent and central pioneer of the photography book as an art form, particularly the genre of oversized photos. The best known and most influential of her 22 works is This Is the American Earth, a collaboration with Ansel Adams, published in 1960. Like Adams, Newhall was involved with the Sierra Club, and wrote often about issues of conservation.

She died at age 66 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming from injuries received in an accident on the Snake River of Grand Teton National Park.

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Recensioni

P. H. Emerson : the fight for photography as a fine… di Nancy Wynne Newhall

The source for my first history of photography paper:

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BlueSkyGallery | Aug 21, 2012 |

This is the American earth ([Sierra Club exhibit… di Ansel Adams

In 1955, Ansel Adams came to LeConte Memorial Lodge in Yosemite National Park with Nancy Newhall to mount an exhibit "This is the American Earth," that represented the work of thirty-two photographers. The subsequent exhibition book designed and written by Newhall and David Brower, then Executive Director of the Sierra Club, was published in 1960. This book was the first of the Sierra Club's award-winning "Exhibit Format" book series, and is a testimonial to the need for conservation and protection of the environment. "This is the American Earth is one of the great statements in the history of conservation," proclaimed Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. It has been reprinted several times in the subsequent decades. You may read an excerpt from the foreword by David Brower: http://www.wildnesswithin.com/americanearth.html

For more about the original Exhibit:
http://www.sierraclub.org/education/leconte/history/this_is_the_american_earth.a...… (altro)

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muirpower | Aug 6, 2006 |

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