Kemmerer A. Peter Sekaer: American Pictures

Addison Gallery of American Art, 1999. — 60 p.In 1936 Beaumont Newhall, then curator at The Museum of Modem Art, wrote Photography: A Short History. Photography was not yet considered an academic discipline and very linkhad been published on the subject or its history. In that first slim volume Newhall discussed only a few of the major practitioners of the medium. In the years and many writings following, he immeasurably enlarged his own and our knowledge of photography, inspiring widespread interest and research ever since. Today, many of the formerly "anonymous" have names. We can actually trace their artistic careers and attribute their unique contributions to photography and history.Fifty years after Newhalls cornerstone study, we continue to "discover" photographers who have played vitally important roles in photography history. One of those photographers, Peter Sekaer, was first brought to the Addison's attention by a collector, Stephen C. Sherrill, who donated an album of Sekaer's contact prints to the Addison Gallery in 1996.