Edward Weston
IMAGE (1982. vol 25. issue 3–4.)
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1….A Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration by Robert A. Mayer
Double issue celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of Image features reprints of articles concerning museum collections and photographic, technological, and film history.
2….The First Decade by Beaumont Newhall
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the George Eastman House, Newhall recounts the ways in which the museum has fulfilled the purposes set forth in the original charter.
Reprinted from Vol. 8, No.1, March 1959.
4….Pictures From The Collection: Eastman Meets Nadar
A studio portrait of George Eastman by Nadar and a snapshot of Nadar by Eastman, both taken during his visit to Paris in 1890. Reprinted from Vol. 7, No. 7, Sept. 1958.
5….Weston Daybooks Published by Eastman House
Announcement of the publication of The Daybooks of Edward Weston; Vol. 1: Mexico.
The Daybooks record Weston’s search for an understanding of photography and elucidate the development of his new approach. Reprinted from Vol. 11, No.1, 1962.
6….The Museum's Collections by Van Deren Coke
Article highlights the growth and development of the George Eastman House’s collections of photographs, photographic apparatus, and films. Reprinted from Vol. 14, No. 5/6, Dec. 1971.
9….Lyrical & Accurate by Minor White
Essay on the qualities of straight photography. White describes tangible and intangible characteristics that define pure photography. Reprinted from Vol. 5, No. 8, October 1956
16….Color Photography: A Creative Medium by Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams on photography as an art form and the failure of color photography to fulfill his concepts of the objectives of art. Reprinted from Vol. 6, No. 9, Nov. 1957.
18….""Talent"" by Thomas F. Barrow
Discussion concerning one of Cameron’s first photographic albums, originally presented to G. F. Watts and acquired by George Eastman House. Reprinted from Vol. 14, No. 5/6 Dec. 1971.
20….Some Thoughts on 60's Continuum by William Jenkins
Text describes selection process for the exhibition 60’s Continuum and includes brief comments on many of the twenty-nine featured photographers. Reprinted from Vol. 15, No. 1, March 1972.
23….The George K. Spoor Collection by James Card
History of the Spoor Collection housed in the George Eastman House. Discusses the founding of the Essanay Studio in Chicago, Spoor’s relationship to Bell & Howell, and the birth and death of the Spoor-Berggren Natural Vision System which used 65mm film.
Reprinted from Vol. 5, No. 8, September 1956.
25….""The Oneness of All Ages"" by George C. Pratt
Comparison drawn between D. W. Griffith’s film Intolerance and James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Joyce in Switzerland, Griffith in California, were each to state within a chosen medium their preoccupations with time. Reprinted from Vol. 15, No. 4, Dec. 1972.
28….The Palm Trees Were Gently Swaying: German Refugees From Hitler in Hollywood by Jan-Christopher Horak
Horak discusses the Austro-German refugees who had a profound effect and influence on Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s. Reprinted from Vol. 23, No. 1, June 1980.
38….Optics Design in Photography by Rudolph Kingslake
A collection of articles from various issues that form a concise chronological history of optics design.
38….The Camera Lucida
On Wollaston’s camera lucida, a drawing aid that used a four-sided prism to reflect an object onto a piece of paper to be traced. Introduced in 1807, it was not a camera but it served a similar purpose as is evidenced by an excerpt from Capt. Hall. Reprinted from Vol. 6, No. 8, Oct. 1957.
39….First Daguerreotype Lenses
Follows the development of daguerreotype lenses up to 1841. Reprinted from Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1953.
40….Charles Chevalier And The ""Photographe A Verres Combines""
On Charles Chevalier, the optician Daguerre enlisted to make lenses for his cameras. Reprinted from Vol. 10, No. 5, 1961.
42….Petzval's Lens And Camera
A short synopsis of Joseph Petzval’s professional life and his development of a wide-aperture portrait lens. This is the third article in a series on the history of the photographic lens. Reprinted from Vol. 2, No. 9, December 1953.
43…The Orthoscopic Lens
Brief history of Voigtländer’s lens produced according to a Petzval design of 1839; including a description of two lenses housed in the George Eastman House. Reprinted from Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1955.
44….Early Landscape Lenses
Analysis and description of several landscape lenses including; Wollaston, Grubb’s Aplanatic, Dallmeyer’s Rapid Landscape Lens, and Dallmeyer’s Rectilinear Landscape Lens. Reprinted from Vol. 4, No. 3, March 1955.
45….The Globe Lens Principle
Discussion of the globe lens principle for devising wide-angle lenses, beginning with Thomas Sutton’s “panoramic” lens of 1859 that covered nearly 120°. Reprinted from Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1956.
47….The ""Aplanat"" And The ""Rapid Rectilinear"" Lenses Of 1866
On the simultaneous discovery by Steinheil in Germany and Dallmeyer in England of two nearly identical lenses. Includes a partial list of Aplanat type lenses and their manufacturers. Reprinted from Vol. 6, No. 3, March 1957.
49….The Development Of The Telephoto Lens
History of the telephoto lens. Reprinted from Vol. 2, No. 4, April 1953.
50….The First Anastigmat Lens
Defines anastigmatism of a lens and the use of crown glass of high refractive index to correct it. This corrective lens was called an “Anastigmat.” Reprinted from Vol. 7, No. 7, September 1958.
52….The Ernostar Lens
Article details the design of the H. Ernemann Company’s Ernostar lens and the designer, Ludwig Jakob Bertele who subsequently worked for Zeiss-Ikon when it absorbed the Ernemann Company. Reprinted from Vol. 20, No. 1, March 1977.
53….Notes On ""Deep-Field"" Lenses
Discusses different approaches and lenses designed to increase depth of field. Reprinted from Vol. 9, No. 1, March 1960.
54….Anamorphic Lenses
Description and history of anamorphic lenses from the use of two Brewster’s prisms as “an instrument or toy” patented in 1889 to the use of anamorphic compression in motion pictures culminating in CinemaScope in 1952. Reprinted from Vol. 5, No. 9, November 1956.
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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 : 3–4 Date : September–December, 1982
IMAGE (1978. vol 21. issue 2.)
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Willard Van Dyke: A Portfolio….1
A brief biographical text precedes twelve images by filmmmaker and photographer Willard Van Dyke. A founding member of Group f/64, Van Dyke was influenced by Weston, Adams, Lange, and Lange’s husband Paul Taylor. Article mentions the transition in his photography, between 1929-37, from formal concerns to social documentary images.
Editorial: The Preservation of America's Film Heritage….15
Brief statement argues the importance of preserving our film heritage and describes the enormity of the task.
Degas' Solarized and Negative Photographs: A Look at Unorthodox Classicism….17
Author examines the relationship between Degas’ photography and his drawing and painting, commenting on the photographic qualities in his artwork with specific reference to three solarized negatives of a dancer possibly dating from the 1870s, which were the basis for a series of over 100 drawings and pastels made around 1897.
Conservation Treatment for Photographs: A Review of Some of the Problems, Literature and Practices….24
Article analyzes treatment methods for removing tarnish from daguerreotypes and identifies these methods as experimental procedures. Discusses the preservation attributes of original housing methods and illustrates the museum’s procedures for recasing uncased daguerreotypes.
Exhibitions and Events at the Museum June 1 — August 31….32
International Museum of Photography Traveling Exhibitions….33
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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 : 21 Number : 2 Date : June, 1978
IMAGE (1983. vol 26. issue 2.)
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1….Frank A. Brownell: Mr. Eastman's Camera Maker
Review of Brownell and Eastman’s business relationship and Brownell’s contribution to the photographic industry in Rochester as the largest camera manufacturer in the world in 1902.
10….Stieglitz to Caponigro; An American Photographic Tradition
Accompanying the exhibition The Wise Silence: Photographs by Paul Caponigro, this essay discusses Caponigro’s vision as the confluence of three influential photographers; Edward Weston, Minor White, and Alfred Stieglitz.
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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 : 2 Date : June, 1983
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
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 (1955. vol 4. issue 6.)
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41…[PRINT FROM A PAPER NEGATIVE]
Cover image taken by George F. Archibold with an Eastman roll holder in 1885.
42…PICTURES BY THE ROLL
by BEAUMONT NEWHALL
On William H. Walker’s contributions to Eastman Kodak Company.
44…EDWARD WESTON—Photographer
BY JOHN UPTON*
Reprint of a paper written for the Photographic Arts course cooperatively offered by the University of Rochester and the George Eastman House.
46…THE ""PICTORIAL IMAGE"" EXHIBITION: WHAT DOES PHOTOGRAPHY OFFER THE MAN WHO WOULD USE THE CAMERA AS AN ART MEDIUM?
Short text on the Pictorial Image exhibit at the George Eastman House. States that the purpose of the show is to outline what photography offers the artist-photographer by way of esthetic and scope for his personal communication.
48…THE MYSTERY OF CANADIAN FILM PRODUCTION
Article on the production of distinguished short films in Canada and paradoxically, the dearth of feature films produced there.
48…[ANNOUNCEMENT]
BEGINNING IN JANUARY- - - IMAGE will increase its number of pages, alter its format and go on a subscription basis.
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Author : Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 4 Number : 6 Date : September, 1955
IMAGE (1954. vol 3. issue 3.)
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Author : Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 3 Number : 3 Date : March, 1954
IMAGE (1962. vol 11. issue 1.)
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"WESTON DAYBOOKS PUBLISHED BY EASTMAN HOUSE. . . . 1
Announcement of the publication of The Daybooks of Edward Weston; Vol. 1: Mexico.
The Daybooks record Weston’s search for an understanding of photography and elucidate the development of his new approach.
DAGUERREOTYPES OF THE GREAT FIRE, OSWEGO, N. Y., BY GEORGE N. BARNARD. . . . 2
The Eastman House daguerreotypes of the Oswego fire of 1853 are some of the earliest action news photographs taken in America.
REPORT ON DAGUERRE AND THIRD BIENNIAL EXHIBITIONS. . . . 3
BOOKS RECEIVED. . . . 4
ARTICLES NOTED. . . . 4
TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS. . . . 4
"
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Author : Title : IMAGE: THE BULLETIN OF THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY Volume : 11 Number : 1 Date : 1962