(*NEW ARRIVAL*) (Photography) Beaumont Hall. Beaumont's Kitchen: Lessons on Food, Life and Photography with Beaumont Newhall

Illus. with tipped-in food-centered photographs by photographers such as Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Bernice Abbot, Minor White, et al. Gray cloth, pictorial cover label, acetate jacket. First Edition. Santa Fe: Radius Books, 2009.

A luxuriantly produced compendium of articles and recipes from the legendary curator, critic, “father of photographic history” and fabled chef, Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993)

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, 1993.

Often referred to as the “Father of Photographic History,” the legendary curator and critic Beaumont Newhall was known by his intimate circle--which included Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among many others--as a great chef and a gracious host. This beautifully designed volume, with images printed in deluxe duotones, contains a key selection of articles and recipes culled from "Epicure Corner," Newhall’s weekly column for The Brighton-Pittsford Post, which appeared in the Rochester, New York, newspaper from 1956 to 1969. The columns are accompanied by a selection of photographs by the “Newhall Circle”--including Adams, Weston and Cartier-Bresson, among many other twentieth-century photographic luminaries.

Small tear to acetate jacket at spine foot, else very good.

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