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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 (1977. vol 20. issue 3–4.)
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Arnold Genthe, Gentleman Photographer….1
Genthe’s approach to photography, increasingly anachronistic by the 1920s in its eschewal of modernism, reflected his allegiance with members of an American upper middle class gentility who sought to live and uphold the values of 19th century European high culture.
The Photographic Essay….11
Article talks about the beginnings of the modern photographic essay in the 1930s with several examples from Life illustrating what constitutes the successful presentation of a picture story. Article is excerpt from Theodore M. Brown’s 1972 book Margaret Bourke-White: Photojournalist.
Film Publicity and Production Shots: A Portfolio….19
A portfolio of ten behind the scenes publicity and production photographs from films dating between 1909-1936.
Ophuls' Celebration of Love: LIEBELEI….28
Author compares director Max Ophuls’ 1932 film adaptation of Liebelei to the 1895 Arthur Schnitzler play, explaining how the filmmaker uses the particular characteristics of cinematic space to present a unique and reinvigorated version of the overworked story of an officer’s love affair with a Viennese shop girl.
Editorial: Conservation and Photographs….33
Doherty outlines how a conservator should work in equal partnership with a collection curator to ensure the preservation of photographs entrusted to a museum.
In Search of the "Natural": An Interview with Frank Borzage….34
Interview with actor and director Frank Borzage conducted by Pratt in 1958 provides several anecdotes from his filmmaking career.
Early Film Activities of William Fox….44
A sketch of the New Jersey beginnings of what would become the Twentieth Century Fox film production company. Excerpt from Paul C. Spehr’s book The Movies Begin: Making Movies in New Jersey. Includes six images from these early Fox productions featuring the vamps, Theda Bara and Valeska Surratt.
Early Feature Films….53
Article covers the period 1913-15 and discusses how the New York Motion Picture Corporation made the transition from producing mostly one and two reel shorts to making and marketing feature length films.
The Grün Liquid Lens….63
Medical doctor Edward Ferdinand Grün patents a questionable improvement in lens design–the addition of a liquid between two of the elements.
International Museum of Photography Traveling Exhibitions….65
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Author : Pratt, George C., Director of Publications Rayner, W. Paul, Co-Editor Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 20 Number : 3–4 Date : September–December, 1977
IMAGE (1990. vol 33. issue 1–2.)
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1….Paul Strand: Modernist Outlook/Significant Vision by Naomi Rosenblum
On the one-hundred year anniversary of Strand’s birth, Rosenblum discusses the clarity and consistency of Strand’s vision.
13….Darkroom Vs. Greenroom: Victorian Art Photography and Popular Theatrical Entertainment by Malcolm R. Daniel
On photographers who used combination printing and other techniques to create images whose allegorical power approached that of paintings. Though widely enjoyed the moral probity of these entertainments were constantly questioned.
21….Daguerreotype Portraits By William E. Kilburn by David A. Wooters
Unidentified daguerreotypes in the George Eastman House collections are attributed to Kilburn by comparing them to corresponding wood engravings appearing in the Illustrated London News.
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Author : Enyeart, James L., Editor Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 33 Number : 1–2 Date : Fall, 1990
IMAGE (1974. vol 17. issue 2.)
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Notes on Recent Industrial Developments in Southern California—Commentary and Portfolio....1
Article includes text selected by Lewis Baltz to accompany the group of images under discussion and a brief text by Jenkins that touches on Baltz’s photographic intentions.
Six Blocks Square—Commentary and Portfolio....10
Milton Rogovin discusses photographing a changing urban neighborhood in the context of his long-standing work documenting Buffalo’s African American community.
The Frenetic Mood of an Entertainment in Ferment....21
A lengthy, laudatory review of George C. Pratt’s Spellbound in Darkness: A History of the Silent Film, a work that collects writings, reviews, records and other documents from the silent film era.
Exhibitions....26
Books Received....26
Films Received....26
European Photohistory Tour....27
Announcement of a George Eastman House sponsored group tour to visit major photographic collections in Europe.
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. Mario Giacomelli to Frederick Gutekunst.
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 : 2 Date : June, 1974