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IMAGE (1979. vol 22. issue 3.)
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Recent Acquisitions: Works of Edward Steichen….1
Unsigned article describes the donation of roughly 1,500 Edward Steichen photographs by his widow Joanna to the George Eastman House and a major exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of Steichen’s birth curated by Marianne Margolis.
Gabriel Harrison— The Poetic Daguerrean….8
Multi-talented Harrison practiced daguerreotypy during the 1840s and 50s working for John Plumbe, M. M. Lawrence, and later as co-owner of a Brooklyn studio. He was one of the first practitioners to explore the artistic potential of the medium and his skills were widely recognized by his peers.
History in Words and History in Photographs….19
Davis uses an album in the George Eastman House collection containing seventy-five photographs of Samoa and Fiji as a case study to analyze how photographs function as historical documents in relation to written history.
Recent Acquisitions: Film Stills from the Twenties….27
Six images selected from over 7,000 film stills from MGM and its antecedent companies donated by the United Artists Corporation demonstrate that early film advertising closely resembled existing circus, theatrical, and vaudeville advertising.
International Museum of Photography Traveling Exhibitions….33
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Author : Pratt, George C., Director of Publications Meinwald, Dan, Co-editor Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 22 Number : 3 Date : September, 1979
IMAGE (1994. vol 37. issue 3–4.)
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1….INTRODUCTION by Marianne Fulton
3….SOUVENIRS OF ASIA: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FAR EAST 1840-1920 by William F. Stapp
Based on an exhibition premiering at Photokina in 1994, Stapp crafts a detailed portrait of early photography in India, China and Japan with a focus on Western and indigenous photographers who provided images for non-native markets.
39….SOUVENIRS OF ASIA: BIOGRAPHIES OF PHOTOGRAPHERS
45….SOUVENIRS OF ASIA: EXHIBITION CHECKLIST
54….FROM THE COLLECTIONS by Philip L. Condax
Description of cameras and processes used for images in the exhibition Souvenirs of Asia.
59….RECENT ACQUISITIONS
Brief sketch of photographer Daido Moriyama.
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Author : Enyeart, James L., Editor Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of George Eastman House Volume : 37 Number : 3–4 Date : Fall–Winter, 1994
IMAGE (1983. vol 26. issue 4.)
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1….Saving the Image: The Deterioration of Nitrate Negatives by Michael Hager
Article describes procedures in printing and duplicating Nickolas Muray negatives in the George Eastman House Negative Archive. It also includes a short history of nitrate film and a list of the five stages of nitrate decomposition.
19….Film Preservation at George Eastman House by John B. Kuiper
Article includes information on nitrate film preservation efforts and storage at George Eastman House.
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Author : Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 26 Number : 4 Date : December, 1983
IMAGE (1984. vol 27. issue 3.)
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1….Photographing the American Presidency by Robert A. Mayer
Mayer devotes this issue of Image to the photographic documentation of United States presidents from a daguerreotype of the sixth president, John Quincy Adams, up to the Reagan presidency.
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Author : Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 27 Number : 3 Date : September, 1984
IMAGE (1985. vol 28. issue 2.)
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1….A Letter to Members of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House
Notice of a temporary decrease in the number of issues of Image to be published in the near future due to budgetary constraints.
2….Daguerre: The Artist by Janet E. Buerger and David Kwasigroh
The authors make the case that Daguerre’s pre-photographic Diorama paintings foreshadow Courbet, the Barbizon painters, Impressionism and photography, and prepare the way for movies.
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Author : Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 28 Number : 2 Date : June, 1985
IMAGE (1979. vol 22. issue 1.)
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Vedute Della Camera: Nineteenth Century Views of Italy….1
By the 1850s studios in Florence, Rome, and Venice were busy producing architectural and landscape views for upper- and middle-class Europeans visiting the Grand Tour sites.
The Inclusion of Medieval and Victorian Art in Jerry Uelsmann's Photographs: A Reading of Associations….8
Peters discusses the surrealist, medieval and Victorian imagery and associations in Uelsmann’s photomontages. Illustrated by six examples of his work.
William Daniels on von Stroheim, Garbo and Others….16
Cinematographer Daniels talks about his career as a cameraman in an interview with Pratt conducted in 1958.
Nineteenth Century French Photography….28
Author briefly discusses a George Eastman House exhibition of French daguerreotypes held in 1977 as a component of a continuing project to publicize the museum’s Cromer Collection, which includes nearly 500 daguerreotypes.
International Museum of Photography Traveling Exhibitions….33
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Author : Pratt, George C., Director of Publications Meinwald, Dan, Co-editor Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 22 Number : 1 Date : March, 1979
IMAGE (1990–1991. vol 33. issue 3–4.)
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1….INTRODUCTION by James L. Enyeart
Enyeart announces a change in format of Image, restates it’s mission to show the
progress and history of the science and art of photography and film, and outlines some upcoming topics.
3….ARTISTS by James L. Enyeart
Enyeart reflects on the special nature of artists prompted in part by the current public scrutiny of artists and their works.
9….BETWEEN "FROM TODAY, PAINTING IS DEAD" AND "HOW THE SUN BECAME A PAINTER" A CLOSE LOOK AT REACTIONS TO PHOTOGRAPHY IN PARIS 1839-1853 by Martin Gasser
Gasser examines the writings of artists, critics and members of Parisian art and photographic institutions who participated in the debates surrounding photography’s status in the first years following its invention.
31….THE ART OF FREDERICK SOMMER PART I: RECENT WORK, ELECTIVE AFFINITIES PART II: MASTER OF THE COMBINATORY ARTS, A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW by Lanier Graham
In Part One the author and Sommer briefly comment on his series of collages titled Elective Affinities. Graham follows with a career sketch of this multi-talented artist.
53….ELECTIVE AFFINITIES: THE FREDERICK SOMMER EXHIBITION
Wall text and photographs of the installation of the Frederick Sommer exhibition at George Eastman House.
57….LANGUAGE OF LIGHT: MASTERWORKS FROM THE COLLECTION
Text announces a new permanent exhibition providing a representative display of the George Eastman House’s collections of photographs, films, rare books and photographic and film apparatus.
62….RECENT ACQUISITION
The Museum recently purchased three photographs by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata. It is part of a larger series devoted to large camera documentation of topographic subjects made by the photographer from 1987-1989.
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Author : Enyeart, James L., Editor Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 33 Number : 3–4 Date : Winter, 1990–1991
IMAGE (1982. vol 25. issue 2.)
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"1….American Landscape Photography from the Nineteenth Century Collections
Issue focuses on the work of five photographers featured in the series From the Nineteenth Century Collections.
4….Samuel A. Bemis
Bemis was one of the earliest amateur photographers in America.
8….George N. Barnard
Barnard started out as a daguerreotypist in Oswego, worked for Alexander Gardner in New York, and was appointed as the Army’s official photographer on General Sherman’s “March to the Sea.”
12….John K. Hillers
Hillers learned wet-plate photography and albumen printing from E.O. Beaman on John Wesley Powell’s second survey of the Green and Colorado Rivers in 1871. Eventually Hiller became chief photographer on the survey.
16….Cloud Studies from the Charles Henry Miller Estate
Photographs of cloud studies from the estate of landscape painter Charles Henry Miller.
20….William Henry Jackson
Jackson is known for his photographs of Yellowstone taken in the 1870s for Hayden’s U.S. Geological Survey. This exhibition includes images from his later work.
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Author : Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 25 Number : 2 Date : June, 1982
IMAGE (1997. vol 40. issue 1–4.)
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1….INTRODUCTION by Dr. Anthony Bannon
3….LUXURY, NOVELTY, FIDELITY: MADAME FOA'S DAGUERREIAN TALE by Rachel Stuhlman
The Daguerreotype: Accuser and Avenger, a short story by Eugénie Foa, is the first piece of fiction in which the plot turns upon the evidence revealed by the daguerreotype, marking photography's literary debut. A translation of this story is followed by an analysis of aspects of Parisian culture that are manifest in it.
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Author : Bannon, Anthony, Executive Editor Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of George Eastman House Volume : 40 Number : 1–4 Date : 1997
IMAGE (1984. vol 27. issue 1.)
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1….John Howe Kent by Joan Pedzich
Biography of the Rochester based nineteenth century studio photographer John Kent.
12….Letters From an Itinerant Daguerreotypist of Western New York by Grant B. Romer
On R. S. Patterson’s photographic career based on two letters housed at George Eastman House; includes reprint of letters.
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Author : Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY at George Eastman House Volume : 27 Number : 1 Date : March, 1984