 The exhibition that Newhall mounted was pivotal in securing photography's place within the arts.Its accompanying catalog, "The History of Photography", was the first account of the first 100 years of photographic history that gave equal credit to its technical virtues, as well as its value as an art form.Lewis Mumford in his review in "The New Yorker," noted that Newhall, "who assembled the photographs and instruments for the Museum, did an admirable job in ransacking the important collections for historic examples" and praised his catalogue as "a very comprehensive and able piece of exposition; one of the best short critical histories I know in any language."