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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 (1956. vol 5. issue 2.)
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The Broadway Daguerreian Galleries
by Beaumont Newhall . . . . 27
Condensed from a chapter in Newhall’s American Daguerreotypes and their Makers: a history and description of several famous daguerreotypists’ galleries in New York City, in the early 1850s.
MOVIES—Which Cuts Do You Prefer?
by James Card . . . . . . 38
On the implications and effects of censorship and film editing.
Index to George Eastman House Resources . . . . . . . . 40
Descriptions of important material in the collection with illustrations of the most typical and outstanding items. Camera obscura, camera lucida, Niépce, and Daguerre.
Pictures from the Collection . . . 42
Short text describing a still life by Adolphe Braun and a photograph believed to be taken by Peter Henry Emerson.
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . 45
MATHEW BRADY, HISTORIAN WITH A CAMERA, by James D. Horan. Picture Collation by Gertrude Horan. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. 1955. 244 pp. Illust. $7.50.
THE CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHER by Andreas Feininger. New York, Prentice-Hall, 1955. 329 pp. Illust. $4.95.
THE FRONTIER YEARS by Mark H. Brown and W. R. Felton. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1955. 272 pp. 124 illust. $10.
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Author : White, Minor, ed. Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 5 Number : 2 Date : February, 1956
IMAGE (1959. vol 8. issue 4.)
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COVER PHOTOGRAPH, EDWARD STEICHEN: MARY PICKFORD. 1927.
EDITORIAL…170
On the increasing awareness of the importance of film archives and preservation.
THE FILMS OF MARY PICKFORD…172
On early screen legend Mary Pickford and her enduring appeal.
AN INDEX TO THE FILMS OF MARY PICKFORD…188
An extensive list of Mary Pickford’s films. Includes title, year, original release date, production company, directors and co-stars, number of reels, and whether or not a positive print is in the Eastman House collection.
NO MAGIC, NO MYSTERY, NO SLEIGHT OF HAND…192
On the first ten years of film exhibition in Rochester, New York. Covers venues, films screened, audience reactions, and the range of projectors and distributors during this first decade.
PRECURSORS OF THE SUB-MINIATURE CAMERA…212
Traces the development of smaller cameras from the daguerreotype era into the early twentieth century. The development of smaller box cameras, such as detective cameras, and sub-miniatures, became more practical with the advent of the gelatin dry plate and roll film.
LOUIS PHILIPPE CLERC, 1875-1959…220
Obituary for the French scientist, teacher, writer and editor in the field of photography.
BOOK REVIEWS…221
THOMAS EAKINS, by Fairfield Porter. New York, George Braziller, Inc., 1959. Cloth bound, $3.95. Paper bound, $1.95. 127 pages. 89 illustrations (16 in color)
PHILIPPE HALSMAN'S JUMP BOOK. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1959. $3.75. 94 pages. 180 illustrations.
QUARTERLY NOTES…222
PHOTOGRAPHY AT MID-CENTURY
GEORGE BASCOMB DRYDEN, 1869-1959
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF FILM ARCHIVES
INDEX TO VOLUME EIGHT…224
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Author : Lyons, Nathan, ed. Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 8 Number : 4 Date : December, 1959
IMAGE (1957. vol 6. issue 9.)
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Editorial . . . 203
Wanted: Personal Documents
Entreaty for donations of personal documents of experimenters and practitioners in the field of photography.
The Photographer of The ""Elegant and Salubrious Village""
Recollections of the life and work of a wet-plate photographer in a small town by his son
by R. W. G. Vail . . . 204
Description of the Geneva, NY photography studio operated by James Gardner Vail from 1862-1880. Includes photographs of Vail’s reception room, printing room, and skylight studio.
A Myth Is As Good As A Milestone
An appraisal of four legends of motion picture history
by George Pratt . . . 208
Pratt debunks several film history myths. Contrary to popular belief, Buster Keaton did not get his start in film with Mack Sennett, Cohen at Coney Island was not Sennett’s first Keystone comedy, early movie audiences and reviewers could recognize a bad movie when they saw one, and Griffith’s Judith of Bethulia of 1913 was not the longest American film up to that time.
Color Photography As A Creative Medium
One of the nation's foremost photographers examines the esthetics of color photography in relation to black and white
by Ansel Adams . . . 212
Ansel Adams on photography as an art form and the failure of color photography to fulfill his concepts of the objectives of art.
Color Photographs by Ansel Adams . . . 213
Courtesy of The Royal Blue Print Co.
Photographic History of The Civil War
A new edition of the classical ten-volume corpus of Brady's Photographic Views of the War
Reviewed by Beaumont Newhall . . . 217
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR. Francis Trevelyan Miller, Editor in Chief. With a New Introduction by Henry Steele Commanger. New York, Thomas Yoseloff, 1957. 10 vols. Illust. $40.
Essay on the extensive collection of civil war photographs by Mathew Brady and his team of photographers.
Two Sound Books For Film Students
Reviewed by James Card . . . 221
THE LION'S SHARE by Bosley Crowther. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1957.
THE LIVELIEST ART by Arthur Knight. New York, Macmillan. Planned for publication November, 1957.
Card reviews The Lion’s Share about the history of MGM, and The Liveliest Art, an ambitious overview of the whole history of motion pictures.
Index to George Eastman House Resources . . . 224
Daguerreotype Cases (cont.)
Descriptions of important material in the collection with illustrations of the most typical and outstanding items. Six examples of elaborate union cases.
Index to Motion Picture Study Collection . . . 226
Descriptions of significant material in this collection. The Margrave’s Daughter (1912), Die Arme Jenny (Poor Jenny, 1912), and Suenden der Vaeter (Sins of the Fathers, 1912).
Book Reviews . . . 227
INCAS TO INDIANS, introduction by Manuel Tunon de Lara, photographs by Werner Bischof, Robert Frank and Pierre Verger. Photography Magazine, London, and Robert Delpire, Paris, 1956. 126 pp., 77 photographs.
MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY AT EXTREME RESOLUTION, by G. W. W. Stevens. New York, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1957. 326 pages. Illus. $8.50.
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Author : Newhall, Beaumont, ed. Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 6 Number : 9 Date : November, 1957
IMAGE (19. vol 2. issue 8.)
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Author : Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 2 Number : 8 Date : November, 1953