(*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 t