Nancy Newhall

thumb| Nancy Wynne Newhall (May 9, 1908 – July 7, 1974) was an American photography critic. She is best known for writing the text to accompany photographs by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, but was also a widely published writer on photography, conservation, and American culture. Quotes ... the cameras should approach an object as an actual spectator does, and, like him, be influenced by empathy. Long shots become closeups, the flow of compositional directions, and, with due care for the results on the screen, studies of detail and texture under dramatic lighting, are all ways of lending motion to motionless things. "Television and the Arts", Parnassas, vol. 12, no. 1 (January 1940) p. 38 The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we yet know how to ask. This Is the American Earth (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1968/1971) p. 84 Conservation is humanity caring for the future. Attributed in John McPhee, Encounters with the Archdruid (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984 [1971]) pt. 1, p. 74 External links Category:1908 births Category:1974 deaths Category:Women authors from the United States