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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 (1977. vol 20. issue 2.)
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Thomas Annan of Glasgow….1
Sketch of Annan’s career as a commercial photographer and artist including an examination of how his photographs for the Glasgow City Improvements Trust’s publication Old Closes, Streets & Etc., function as social and cultural documents; article drawn from the symposium The Art History of Photography: Recent Investigations held at George Eastman House in February 1975.
"What Can You Do for Us, Barney?" Four Decades of Film Collecting: An Interview with James Card ….13
Extensive interview with James Card, the retiring Director of the Film Department at the George Eastman House, tracing his career with the institution, his involvement with the history of film and film preservation, and his lifelong passion for film collecting.
Influential Image: Edward Steichen's J. P. Morgan….32
Author relates the circumstances of Steichen’s photograph of the financier and its use by portrait painters Fedor Encke and Carlos Baca-Flor.
International Museum of Photography Traveling Exhibitions….37
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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 : 2 Date : June, 1977
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 (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 (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 (1978. vol 21. issue 3.)
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The Sipley/3M Collection….1
The George Eastman House received NEA funding in 1978 to mount an exhibition selected from the Dr. Louis Walton Sipley collection of over 50,000 photographs, 400 films, 5,000 books and periodicals, and film apparatus donated by the 3M Corporation the previous year.
Philadelphia Photographic Salons 1898-1901….2
The three annual juried exhibitions framed the contentious debate over the nature of artistic photography between the image makers who would soon form the Photo-Secession and their supporters, and photographers and writers from the more popular camps and photographic journals.
Rediscovering THE YELLOW GIRL….11
The Sipley/3M Collection includes 443 films dating from 1912-18 released by Pathé Frères in 28mm format for educational and home use. Among the educational films and travelogues are several important fictional films including The Yellow Girl whose non-realistic sets predate The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Franz Hanfstaengl: Munich Portraits, 1853-1863….15
An exhibition at the George Eastman House during the summer of 1978 featured portraits by Bavarian photographer Hanfstaengl drawn primarily from his principal work Album der Zeitgenossen.
Robert Heinecken….20
Heineken utilizes appropriated images to construct his multi-layered photographs that comment on the medium and mass culture. Illustrations are from a 1976 George Eastman House exhibition.
Straight to the Sun: The Rise of John Barrymore….25
A sketch of Barrymore’s career as a film and stage actor.
Exhibitions and Events at the Museum September 1 — November 30….32
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 : 21 Number : 3 Date : September, 1978
IMAGE (1958. vol 7. issue 3.)
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Edward Weston. . . .50
Tribute to Edward Weston upon the occasion of his death in Carmel, California.
Photography at the Great Exhibition
The photographic record of the first international exposition held at the Crystal Palace in London Hyde Park 1851
by Gerda Peterich. . . .53
Article discusses photography on display at the first international exhibition as well as its use to document the event.
How George Eastman Invented The First Kodak Camera
The step by step development of an idea
by Beaumont Newhall. . . .59
On Eastman’s development of roll film, the short-lived Eastman Detective Camera, and ultimately the ground-breaking Kodak camera. Along with the first Kodak came the introduction of mass photo finishing encapsulated by the slogan, You Press the Button, We Do the Rest.
Index to the Motion Picture Study Collection
The Typhoon (1914)
The Gangsters and the Girl. . . .65
D. W. Griffith and Billy Bitzer Pose for a Still
Can we escape the evidence?. . . .66
Director D.W. Griffith and his cameraman Billy Bitzer in a production still erroneously thought to be from The Escape. Evidence points to Death’s Marathon, starring Henry B. Walthall, as a more likely source.
Index to Resources
William Henry Fox Talbot
Many hitherto unpublished calotypes. . . .68
Reproductions of photographs by Fox Talbot.
Book Review
The Movies, by Richard Griffith and Arthur Mayer. . . .70
THE MOVIES by Richard Griffith and Arthur Mayer. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1957. 442 pp. Illust. $15.00.
--James Card
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Author : Newhall, Beaumont, ed. Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 7 Number : 3 Date : March, 1958
IMAGE (1964. vol 12. issue 4.)
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MEMBERS' PUBLICATION: THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. . . . 13
On the release of the revised edition of Beaumont Newhall’s History of Photography.
A SURVEY IN SLIDES OF THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. . . . 13
As a service to schools, universities and museums, the George Eastman House announces the publication of 250 slides illustrating the history of photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY 64. . . . 14
An exhibition of the work of twenty-five influential photographers who were nominated by the participants in last year's exhibition, Photography 63.
EASTMAN HOUSE EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR. . . . 15
Excerpt from a review of the photography exhibition on display at the Kodak Pavillion of the New York World’s Fair.
LEOPOLD MANNES, 1899-1934. . . . 15
Obituary for Leopold Mannes, co-inventor of the Kodachrome process of color photography.
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS. . . . 16
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Author : Title : IMAGE: THE BULLETIN OF THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY Volume : 12 Number : 4 Date : October, 1964
IMAGE (1959. vol 8. issue 2.)
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COVER PHOTOGRAPH, FOX TALBOT: LACE, PHOTOGENIC DRAWING, 1843
EDITORIAL…58
Prophetic Pioneer
Introduction to William Henry Fox Talbot, inventor of the calotype.
WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT…60
On Talbot’s invention of photography, from his early photogenic drawings to his calotype process, and the patent disputes he faced.
NOTES ON THE PUBLICATION OF THE PENCIL OF NATURE…75
THE PENCIL OF NATURE…77
Reproduction of Talbot’s photographically illustrated publication of 1844. His introduction details the experiments that led him to obtain successful photographic images.
INGMAR BERGMAN…106
Three films written and directed by Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman that are in the George Eastman House Collection: Ship of Dreams, Summer with Monika, and Sawdust and Tinsel.
BOOK REVIEWS…108
DER WEG DES FILMS; die Geschichte der Kinematographie und ihrer Vorlaufer, von Friedrich von Zglinicki. Berlin: Rembrandt-Verlag. 1956. 992 pp. 890 illus.
KNAURS BUCH VOM FILM by Rune Waldekranz and Verner Arpe. Droemersche Verlagsanstalt, Th. Knaur Nachf. Munich. 1956. 543 pages, 600 illustrations D.M. 9.80.
PRINTING WITH VARIABLE CONTRAST PAPERS, by M. Richard Marx. San Francisco: Camera Craft Publishing Co., 1959. 96 pp. 86 illus. $1.95.
NEWS AND NOTES…111
HISTORY OF GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHIC INDUSTRY
INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS
APPRAISAL OF THE MARCH OF TIME
DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL
QUARTERLY NOTES…112
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Author : Lyons, Nathan, ed. Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 8 Number : 2 Date : June, 1959
IMAGE (1961. vol 10. issue 3.)
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THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY. . . . 9
Description of a permanent exhibition of over 200 masterpieces of photography from 1839 to the present, selected from the Eastman House collections by Nancy Newhall.
THE JACK-RABBITS OF THE MOVIE BUSINESS. . . .10
On the prolific and profitable nickelodeon theatres of the early 1900s.
AMERICA'S FIRST NEWS OF PHOTOGRAPHY. . . . 11
A Philadelphia press report on Daguerre’s new process that predates Samuel Morse’s published letter, long believed to be the first announcement of photography in America.
ABSTRACTS. . . . 11
The Development of Scientific Photography in Pre-Revolutionary and Soviet Russia. K. V. Chibisov. Photographic Journal, CI (May, 1961) 129-48. Illus.
The History of Color Photography. I—The Gay Nineties. R. C. Smith. Photography (London), XVI (May, 1961), 20-31.
SILENT STAR PARADE. . . .12
CHAPLIN REVUE: The Idle Class, Easy Street and other Chaplin films.
ROBIN HOOD
DANCING MOTHERS
ON THE NIGHT STAGE
THE LAST COMMAND
LOVE
THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN
SHOOTING STARS
THE NAVIGATOR
STELLA MARIS
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS. . . .12
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Author : Title : IMAGE: THE BULLETIN OF THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY Volume : 10 Number : 3 Date : 1961