 Nevertheless, he accepted a request to contribute an introduction to the MoMA exhibition catalogue for Henri Cartier-Bresson.Newhall received a Guggenheim Fellowship and used it to start a new edition of his "The History of Photography," and also began research into the history of the daguerreotype in America, where its use had continued for a decade after its obsolescence in Europe.From 1948 was appointed curator of the George Eastman Museum, housed in the former residence of George Eastman, in Rochester, NY to 1958, and was its director until 1971.