Album 6. July 1970. Special George Eastman House issue of short-lived magazine edited by Bill Jay.

Introduction by Beaumont Newhall. Essay on the future of photography by Thomas F. Barrow. Photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, Brassai, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Charles Fredericks & Co., Gertrude Kasebier, Robert Heinecken, Edward Weston, Les Krims, Jerry Uelsmann, Emmet Gowin, Aaron Siskind, Robert Fichter, et al.

Contributions by Thomas Barrow and Harold Jones. [Many of the photographs in this magazine were in an exhibition, From the George Eastman House Collection, 1774-1969. Newhall was the director of the George Eastman House, now the George Eastman Museum, at this time. The entire magazine, which is bound like a book in stiff illustrated wraps, is devoted to the Eastman House and constitutes the only available catalog for this exhibit.] VG+. Summary:

Issue 6 of Album (July 1970) is a dedicated special issue focused on the vast collection of the George Eastman House(now the George Eastman Museum) in Rochester, New York.

Edited by British photography writer and advocate Bill Jay—who founded the short-lived, 12-issue magazine (1970–1971) to bridge art-historical writing and contemporary imagery—this landmark issue served effectively as a catalog for the exhibition From the George Eastman House Collection, 1774–1969.

Key Highlights & Contents:

• Institutional Essays: Includes an introduction by legendary photo historian and then-director of the museum Beaumont Newhall, alongside an essay by associate curator Thomas F. Barrow speculating on the future trajectory of photography.

• Historical & Contemporary Masters: Features work spanning the entire history of the medium drawn from the museum’s 50,000-print archive, including 19th-century pioneers like Eadweard Muybridge and Alvin Langdon Coburn, mid-century masters such as Brassaï, Edward Weston, and Aaron Siskind, and experimental contemporary photographers including Les Krims, Jerry Uelsmann, Emmet Gowin, and Robert Heinecken.

• Production Format: Published in a book-like format with stiff illustrated wraps, serving as a rare, highly regarded survey that brought American museum-level photography scholarship to a broader British and international audience.