Beginning in 1952, Image traced the accumulation of scholarship in the history of photography, including the evolving motion picture industry and the technology of photography. In its first decades there was nothing like it in the world. Beaumont Newhall, George Eastman House's first curator and author of The History of Photography (published by the Museum of Modern Art), was a frequent contributor in the early years, as was the Museum's first motion picture curator, James Card, an eminent motion picture historian. Also contributing numerous articles was George Pratt, a silent film scholar and author of the widely consulted Spellbound in Darkness (New York Graphic Society). Other noted contributors include the artist and George Eastman House curator, Minor White; educator and visionary, Nathan Lyons; and Museum curators, Thomas Barrow and Robert Sobieszek. Together this accumulation of research and interpretation established the history of photography as a legitimate field of scholarship.Issues of Image Magazine
IMAGE (1971. vol 14. issue 1.)
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Editorial….1
Image mission statement.
Conversations with Duane Michals….2
Transcript of a dialogue between professor Arnold Gassan, his students, and the photographer Duane Michals.
Fall Symposium….9
List of symposium lectures at the Eastman House relating to the exhibition Photo Eye of the 20s.
Beaumont Newhall's Kulturpreis….10
Beaumont Newhall, Director of George Eastman House, received the 1970 Culture Prize of the German Society of Photography together with Leo Fritz Gruber of Cologne on September 19, 1970. English translation of speeches given at the awards ceremony.
Photography as the Handmaid of Art, O. G. Rejlander….12
Facsimile of an article published in The British Journal Photographic Almanac and Photographers Daily Companion in 1866. Rejlander lists a number of ways in which photography can be useful to artists.
Synoptic Catalogue….14
The Synoptic Catalogue of the George Eastman House Collections is a brief survey of the prints and print makers that are pictorially or historically significant or both. From Berenice Abbott to Baldi and Wurthle.
Lewis W. Hine Portfolio….16
The Portfolio contains twelve individual plates (5x7 on 9x12 sheets) reproduced from contemporary prints from Hine's original glass plates preserved in the Eastman House negative archive.
George Eastman House Traveling Exhibitions….17
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Author : Coke, F. Van Deren , ed. Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the George Eastman House Volume : 14 Number : 1 Date : January, 1971
IMAGE (1974. vol 17. issue 3.)
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Robertson of Constantinople....1
On the career of James Robertson, an Englishman who spent much time photographing the landscape, architecture, and inhabitants of Constantinople. He also photographed the Crimean War and the Indian mutiny with Felice Beato.
Lynne Cohen: Interiors—Portfolio....12
Author locates Cohen’s photographs, which document interior spaces, within a tradition of interior photography by practitioners such as Atget, Evans, Lange, Arbus, and Nicholas Nixon.
King Vidor's THE CROWD....20
A fresh analysis of the film The Crowd, including a summation of several earlier interpretations that, for the author, reflect the reviewer’s conception of society more than sound analysis.
Review: Photography of Gary Hallman....26
Author believes subject matter is of minimal importance in Hallman’s abstracted photographs, which are primarily concerned with visual perception.
Books Received....27
Films Received....27
Four Exhibitions....27
Synoptic Catalog....28
The synoptic catalog is a selective survey of the photographic and allied resources of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Ernst Haas to James Hilbrandt.
International Museum of Photography Traveling Exhibitions….33
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Author : Pratt, George C., ed. Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 17 Number : 3 Date : September, 1974
IMAGE (1974. vol 17. issue 4.)
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An Art Historical View of Paul Strand....1
Author critically examines Strand’s monographs and his recurrent use of pictorial themes as symbols for the evolving relationship between man and nature.
"The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and So Unapproachable"....12
Evans answers questions concerning photography and the creative process posed by an unnamed student interviewer; article reprinted from the February 1974 issue of Yale Alumni Magazine.
"Anything Can Happen—and Generally Did"....19
Buster Keaton gives a detailed account of his silent film career during a talk with an unnamed interviewer in Los Angeles in 1958.
Symposium....30
List of participants and topics for an upcoming symposium sponsored by the George Eastman House entitled "The Art History of Photography: Recent Investigations."
Synoptic Catalog....30
The synoptic catalog is a selective survey of the photographic and allied resources of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. David Octavius Hill to Robert Howlett.
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Author : Pratt, George C., Director of Publications Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 17 Number : 4 Date : December, 1974
IMAGE (1975. vol 18. issue 1.)
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Nancy Newhall (1908-1974)….1
Short summary of the highlights of the late Nancy Newhall’s career as a writer, scholar, curator, and photographer. Includes a bibliography of her writings.
Dallett Fuguet….6
Extensive review of the writings and images of critic and photographer Fuguet, long time Stieglitz associate, writer and editor for both Camera Notes and Camera Work, and founding member of the Photo-Secession. Includes a bibliography of his writings.
Trial Balloons: The Chamber Mystery….18
Analysis of the use of unusual caption balloons to present dialogue in the silent film The Chamber Mystery. Author compares the technical and aesthetic problems these dialogue balloons created with similar problems faced by early sound films.
The Blonde Telegrapher: Blanche Sweet….21
Biographical information on Blanche Sweet who, like most early film actors, began her career on stage. She worked for the Biograph Company and starred in D.W. Griffith’s seminal film The Lonedale Operator.
A Selected List of Current Film Periodicals in English….26
Synoptic Catalog….26
The synoptic catalog is a selective survey of the photographic and allied resources of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Huard to Keely.
International Museum of Photography Traveling Exhibitions….33
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Author : Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 18 Number : 1 Date : March, 1975