Beaumont Newhall: Beaumont’s Kitchen
”One evening in 1956 our friend Andrew Wolf burst into our house in Rochester with the startling news that he had bought a weekly suburban paper, The Brighton-Pittsford Post. He explained that he planned to report local news and publish columns on a variety of subjects, such as reviews of the theater, concerts, motion pictures, and cooking. ‘You’ll be the food editor,’ he told me! ‘What! I can’t do that!’ ‘Why not? I know you can write because I like to read it. You can cook well, because I like to eat it.’”
— Beaumont Newhall, Focus: Memoirs of a Life in Photography, Bulfinch Press, 1993
Text by David Scheinbaum, MaLin Wilson-Powell, Amy Conger, Christopher Rocca, Jeanne Adams, Milton Esterow, Diana Edkins, Stuart Ashman, Elizabeth Glassman, Thomas Barrow, Mary Alinder, Bill Jay
Hardcover with clear jacket
7.75 x 10 inches
172 pages / 28 images
Trade ISBN: 9781934435069
Signed ISBN: 9798890180735 (signed by editors)
Limited edition of this book available HERE
Considered by many to be the father of the history of photography, BEAUMONT NEWHALL was known by his intimate circle as a great chef and gracious host as well. This beautifully designed volume contains a substantial selection of Newhall’s articles and recipes culled from his weekly column, “Epicure Corner,” which appeared in The Brighton-Pittsford Post in Rochester, New York, from 1956–1969.
Accompanying the columns is a selection of photographs made by some of the “Newhall Circle,” which included Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Strand, and many other twentieth-century photographic luminaries, as well as reminiscences from his many colleagues and friends who enjoyed Beaumont’s efforts in the kitchen. This tribute publication to a seminal figure in the history of the medium was edited by David Scheinbaum, who worked with Newhall for fifteen years as his assistant, until Newhall’s death in 1993. Scheinbaum lovingly introduces the book with a personal essay.