Editorial. . . 3
Expository page about Image’s new format and its mission statement. The aim of IMAGE is to record and clarify the past and present progress of photography, thus defining and vivifying the traditions of what has become the universal language of our time.
Eadweard Muybridge and the Motion Picture
by Beaumont Newhall . . . . 4
Essay about Muybridge’s photographic career and his influence on the production of moving pictures. Details his early experiments photographing horses in motion and the impact this work had on other innovators like Marey and Edison.
The Little Gallery Idea
by Minor White. . .12
Essay detailing the virtues of a gallery space devoted to new talent in photography.
The Film Career of Joan Crawford
by James Card and George Pratt. . . 14
Brief accolade for Joan Crawford followed by an index to Joan Crawford’s films.
Index to George Eastman House Resources. . .18
Descriptions of important material in the collection with illustrations of the most typical and outstanding items. This issue discusses pre-photographic techniques, the silhouette, physionotrace, and camera obscura.
Pictures from the Collection. . . 20
On the studio work of Boston daguerreotypists, Southworth & Hawes, including a portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Ross ""Doublet"" Lens
by Rudolf Kingslake . . . . 22
Details of Andrew Ross’s attempts to design a high-aperture portrait lens to be used with the new Daguerreotype process.
Book Notices . . . 23
IMPRESSION OF EUROPE by Ihei Kimura. Tokyo, Asahi Shimbu Pub. Co. Ltd. 1955. 37 pp., 203 plates, 2,500 yen.
THE FACE OF NEW YORK by Andreas Feininger and Susan E. Lyman. New York, Crown Pub., Inc. 1955. 185 pp., 202 illust. $5.00.
LEICA MANUAL AND DATA BOOK, Thirteenth Edition, by Willard Morgan, Henry Lester, John Carroll and Dorthy Gelatt. New York, Morgan and Lester, 1955. 456 pp., illust. $6.00.
1955 UNIVERSAL PHOTO ALMANAC. Edna Bennett, Contributions Editor. New York, Falk Publishing Company, 1954. 254 pp., Illust. $2.50.
THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Helmut Gernsheim in collaboration with Alison Gernsheim. London, Oxford University Press, 1955. 395 pp., 359 Illust. $16.50.
