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IMAGE (1975. vol 18. issue 1.)
In This Issue…
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
Citation Information
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 (1956. vol 5. issue 4.)
In This Issue…
Editorial . . . . . . . .75
On recent advances in film speed.
Jean-Eugene-Auguste-Atget
The documentarian of old Paris
by Minor White . . . . . . 76
On Eugene Atget’s photographic documentation of Paris during the first quarter of the 20th century.
Japanese Film Masterpieces: Producers' Choice
Six best Japanese films made since 1951 added to the Eastman House collection.
by James Card . . . . . . .84
On the Japanese feature films given to the George Eastman House by the six major film producers in Japan as representative of their finest recent work.
Miracle of Observation
A commentary on the great Von Stroheim motion picture Greed.
by Beaumont Newhall . . . . 88
On the making of Erich Von Stroheim’s Greed.
Index to George Eastman House Resources . . . . . . . 92
Descriptions of important material in the collection with illustrations of the most typical and outstanding items. Lithographs and other Daguerre-related materials continued.
Book and Article Reviews . . . .94
The People of Moscow and The Europeans by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Nadar by Pierre Schneider.
THE PEOPLE OF MOSCOW, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Paris, Draeger Freres, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1955. 163 photos. $10.00
THE EUROPEANS, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. New York, Simon & Schuster in collaboration with Editions Verve, Paris, 1955. 114 photos. $15.00.
-M. W.
BETTER COLOR MOVIES by Fred Bond, FPSA. San Francisco, Camera Craft Publishing Company, 1955. 159 pp. 16 color plates and 17 black and white Illust. $4.95.
THE MANY-SIDED NADAR, by Pierre Schneider. Art News Annual, XXV (1956), 56-72.
Obituary, Robert Taft . . . . . 95
Obituary for Robert Taft, author of the first comprehensive history of photography, Photography and the American Scene.
Citation Information
Author : White, Minor, ed. Title : IMAGE: Journal of Photography of the George Eastman House Volume : 5 Number : 4 Date : April, 1956
