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IMAGE (1982. vol 25. issue 1.)
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1….Silent Films for Contemporary Audiences
Essay describes the compromises and problems, technological and aesthetic, in screening silent films.
7….Orchestral Accompaniment for Silent Films
Discussion includes philosophical considerations, scores, cue sheets, library resources, and modern day performances.
17….Cue Sheets for Silent Films
On Theodore Huff’s collection of thematic cue sheets for silent films presented to George Eastman House in 1953. Includes an alphabetical listing of the film titles in the cue sheet collection.
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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 : 1 Date : March, 1982
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collection containing seventy-five photographs of Samoa and Fiji as a case study to analyze how photographs function as historical documents in relation to written history.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 (1995. vol 38. issue 3–4.)
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1….INTRODUCTION by Marianne Fulton
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of women's suffrage and the ratification of the 19th Amendment this issue of Image is dedicated to articles by and about women.
3….READING DEEPER: THE LEGACY OF DICK AND JANE IN THE WORK OF CLARISSA SLIGH by Carla Williams
Analysis of several visual narratives by artist Sligh which use stinging parodies of the Dick and Jane readers as a ground for trenchant deconstructions of race, gender, and family relationships.
17….PICTURING DOMESTIC SPACE: CLARA E. SIPPRELL AND THE AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT by Diana Gaston
Discussion about Sipprell and her photography which was greatly influenced by Pictorialism, the Clarence White School, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Sipprell’s self-reliance and professional independence was emblematic of the “new woman.”
31….A PORTFOLIO FROM INSIGHT
Includes main wall label and a small selection of images from the George Eastman House exhibition, Insight: Women’s Photographs from the Collection.
39….RECENT ACQUISITIONS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL IMPULSE by Therese Mulligan
Brief analysis of the autobiographical works of Clarissa Sligh, Elaine O’Neil and Carrie Mae Weems. Works described are recent additions to the collections.
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Author : Fulton, Marianne, Associate Editor Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography and Motion Pictures of George Eastman House Volume : 38 Number : 3–4 Date : Fall–Winter, 1995
IMAGE (1972. vol 15. issue 4.)
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New Director of the Museum….1
Article provides credentials of the new director of the George Eastman House, Robert J. Doherty.
Prints and Negatives of Gertrude Käsebier….2
Images and negatives by Käsebier added to the George Eastman House collection through a gift from her daughter and granddaughter. Overview of Käsebier’s career as a respected pictorialist and commercial portrait photographer.
On Käsebier's Work in 1907….8
Note introducing the reprint of an overview of Käsebier’s work in a 1907 issue of The Craftsman magazine.
Photography as an Emotional Art: A Study of the Work of Gertrude Käsebier by Giles Edgerton….9
Reprint from the April 1907 issue of The Craftsman magazine; Giles Edgerton is a pseudonym for Mary Fanton Roberts.
New Acquisitions: A Gardner Album….13
Information on an album assembled by retired Union officer Arnold A. Rand as a chronological record of the Lincoln assassination and conspiracy trial. The majority of the photographs in the album are by Alexander Gardner.
New Acquisitions: The Questar Telescope….17
A detailed account of the components of the Questar which can be used as a telescope and a photographic lens.
Taking Photographs on the Wing: “The Detective” Camera—Apparatus for Amateur Photographers….18
An excerpt from The New York Tribune, November 4, 1883, on detective cameras and the increase in amateur photographers.
New Acquisitions: A Note on Early Photomontage Images….19
Article discusses composite photographs by Francis Bedford, made for commercial reasons, and by Julia Margaret Cameron, made as working sketches, and the Campbell family album featuring photomontage, made as a leisure time activity.
Newman, Toth, Brown….25
Article briefly discusses George Eastman House’s exhibitions of the work of Arnold Newman, Carl Toth, and Robert Brown.
"The Oneness of All Ages"….27
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.
Synoptic Catalog….30
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. Maxime Du Camp to Frank A. Ehret.
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 : 15 Number : 4 Date : December, 1972
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 (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 (1955. vol 4. issue 2.)
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9…EDWARD STEICHEN AND THE FAMILY OF MAN
By O. N. Solbert
Issue dedicated to the career of Edward Steichen as a tribute to the opening of the exhibit The Family of Man.
16…THE FIGHTING LADY
Short essay on the film shot under the supervision of Commander Edward J. Steichen about an aircraft carrier embattled in the Pacific.
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Author : Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 4 Number : 2 Date : February, 1955
IMAGE (1959. vol 8. issue 1.)
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COVER PHOTOGRAPH, ANSEL ADAMS: MONO LAKE, CALIFORNIA. 1947
EDITORIAL…2
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.
TENTH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION…5
Call for submissions for an exhibition of contemporary photography to be held at the George Eastman House in honor of its tenth anniversary.
SOME DEFINITIONS BY ANSEL ADAMS…6
Adams attempts to define the art and science of photography.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT BY DAGUERRE…32
Reproduction and translation of a broadside written by Daguerre announcing the daguerreotype.
OUTSTANDING MOTION PICTURE ACQUISITIONS OF THE YEAR…37
In 1958 three hundred thirty-three titles were added to the George Eastman House film collection. Here is a list of some of the notable additions, including twelve Edison kinetoscope films.
BOOK REVIEWS…47
U. S. CAMERA 1959. Edited by Tom Maloney. U. S. Camera, New York, 1958. 305 pages. 292 illustrations. $8.95. Clothbound.
THE GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHIC ANNUAL 1959. Edited by Dr. Wolf Strache. Das Deutsche Lichtbild & American Photographic Book Publishing Co., New York, 1958. 85 pages of text. 126 pages of plates. $7.95. Clothbound.
1959 PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL. Edited by Bruce Downs and the editors of Popular Photography. Ziff-Davis, New York, 1958. 242 pages. 287 illustrations. $1.25. Paperbound.
PHOTOGRAPHY YEARBOOK 1959. Edited by Norman Hall and Basil Burton. Photography Magazine (Great Britain) Ltd. 1958. 236 pages. 224 illustrations. 30 shillings. Clothbound.
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOS. Edited by Joachim Giebelhausen. Verlag Grossbild-Technik 1958. 201 pages. 100 plates. $8.10. Clothbound.
PRAMIIERTE FOTOS. Edited by Helmut Grunwald. Fotokinoverlag Halle, East Germany, 1958. 108 pages. 81 illustrations. DM 7.80. Paperbound.
PICTURES OF INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON OF JAPAN, 1958. Edited by Asahi Shimbun-sha. Asahi Shimbun Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1958. 178 pages. 172 illustrations. Clothbound.
THE PICTURE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, from the Earliest Beginnings to the Present Day by Peter Pollack. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1958. 624 pp., 655 illustrations, 30 in color. $17.50.
THE WORLD IS YOUNG by Wayne Miller, New York: The Ridge Press; distributed by Pocket Books and Simon & Schuster; 192 pages, 289 photographs; $1.50 (soft cover) and $10.00 (hard cover).
AGEE ON FILM. Reviews and Comments by James Agee. McDowell Obolensky, New York, 1958. 432 pages. $6.00.
PROGRESS IN PHOTOGRAPHY 1955-1958, VOLUME THREE OF AN INTERNATIONAL RECORD, Edited by D. A. Spencer.
THE FOCAL PRESS, LONDON and New York 1958. 169 pages. 21 illustrations. 50 Shillings.
NEWS AND NOTES…55
Harmant, Pierre G., ""On recherche toujours Vinconnu de 1825 ..."", Kodeco, X, No. 7 (Oct. 1958), 18 - 20.
Infinity. VII, No. 10 (Dec. 1958).
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Author : Newhall, Beaumont, ed. Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 8 Number : 1 Date : March, 1959