New Photo Vision. Helmut Gernsheim.

1942. First edition. The Fountain Press. 63pp

All photographs are by Gernsheim.

'His first book, New Photo Vision, a collections of lectures he gave while an internee in Australia, appeared the same year.  The influential American writer and historian, Beaumont Newhall, visited him in London in 1944 urging him to actively collect photographs, which he started in 1945.  His war photos were exhibited in the Churchill Club, at the Courtauld Institute and at the National Gallery.

Gernsheim was one of the first (and certainly the most important) early photography historian. The Independent termed him “one of the most influential figures in the history of photography.' 

by Dictionary of Art Historian