Arnold Newman is a new addition at Artnet's Artist Works Catalogues, but his name belongs with the greatest American black-and-white photographers, right up there with Carleton Watkins, Imogen Cunningham, and Ed Weston. Newman died in 2006.

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Arnold Newman is a new addition at Artnet's Artist Works Catalogues, but his name belongs in the pantheon of great American black-and-white photographers, right up there with Carleton Watkins, Imogen Cunningham, and Ed Weston.   As the following pictures illustrate, Newman was very very good with color too.   He died in 2006.

To view my previous OEN article featuring the black-and-white portrait photography of Arnold Newman, click here.  And to view an OEN article with the painted, surrealist portraiture of Almut Heise (for contrast), click here. 

I only began really looking at art four or five years ago, which I did not to learn about art but to relax.   Consequently, I don't know a lot about it, but I do know what I like.  

All the images which follow are courtesy of Commerce Graphics Limited, Incorporated, the Estate of Arnold Newman, and Artnet's Artist Works Catalogs.   You can access Artnet's AWC's Homepage, where permission is given to the public to reproduce images there, by clicking here.

You can also find all the portraits included in my two OEN articles on Arnold Newman, plus about sixty of his other works.

 

It's Christmas!   So relax and enjoy Arnold Newman's photographic portraits of seven artists and one impresario, in color:

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Authors Bio:
I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest Service in San Francisco as a Clerk-Typist, GS-4. I was active in the USFS's union for several years, including a brief stint as editor of The Forest Service Monitor, the nationwide voice of the Forest Service in the National Federation of Federal Employees. Howsoever, I now believe my most important contribution while editor of the F.S.M. was bringing to the attention of F.S. employees the fact that the Black-Footed Ferret was not extinct; one had been found in 1980 on a national forest in the Colorado. In 2001 I retired from the USFS after attaining the age of 60 with 23 years of service. Stanford University was evidently unimpressed with my efforts to make USFS investigative reports of tort claim incidents available to tort claimants (ie, "the public"), alleging the negligence of a F.S. employee acting in the scope of his/her duties caused their damages, under the Freedom of Information Act. Oh well. What'cha gonna do?