Current Exhibitions
»Ideal Forms: Photographs by Frederick H. Evans
From April 7, 2012 through June 24, 2012 in the Entrance Gallery.
Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853 – 1943) is best known for his exquisite photographs of mediaeval cathedrals, yet his photographic output included many different subjects. Ideal Forms highlights some of his lesser known photographs and emphasizes the diversity of his work. His choices of photographic subjects reflect these wide-ranging interests and also demonstrate his skill as a photographer. No other photographer has captured ecclesiastical spaces with such emotion or enabled the platinum print to render their stones edifice so perfectly. The exhibition also features Evans's portraiture and early photo-micrographic images of plant and sea life, which will be displayed in the gallery on iPads.
»See: Untold Stories
From March 10, 2012 through September 16, 2012 in the Brackett–Clark Gallery.
George Eastman House turns to its own unparalleled collections for a survey of photography from the earliest efforts in the 19th century to the most recent techniques and aesthetics. See: Untold Stories, on view March 10 through Sept. 16, 2012, is the first of several exhibitions showcasing the collections, in an effort to share a wide variety of the little known and rarely seen.
The collection material will be presented in the way the artists intended it to be seen, in groups, sets and portfolios. Among the material shown will be a selection of prints from Ansel Adams’s first portfolios (1948-1963); proof prints by Edward Steichen; images of Marilyn Monroe by Philippe Halsman; a selection of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes donated to the museum by distinguished collector Donald Weber; the original 1876-1877 woodburytypes of John Thomson’s Street Life in London; dye-transfer prints by Harold Edgerton; “Roll, Jordon, Roll” by Doris Ulman made in the Sea Islands of Georgia in the early 1930s; Garry Winogrand’s “Women are Beautiful” series; Neil Winokur’s “A to Z” portfolio; and commercial work by Joel-Peter Witkin. The series also includes an extensive study of the work of noted pictorialist Frederick Evans curated by Alana West, Eastman House’s 2010 Tanenbaum Fellow.
»Ballyhoo: The Art of Selling the Movies
From March 10, 2012 through September 16, 2012 in the Brackett–Clark Annex.
Ballyhoo: The Art of Selling the Movies, part of the See: Untold Stories exhibition, highlights the innovative lobby displays, outdoor advertising, and merchant tie-ins that were a hallmark of film exhibition during the era of the corporate studio system, which was at its peak between 1925 and 1950. The images are drawn primarily from the publicity stills and photographs collected by Ray Rueby, Sr., and the studio publicity departments of Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. During the 25 years that are the focus of this exhibition, studios devised bigger, brassier, and glitzier productions to entice patrons facing the Great Depression and a world war. The publicity efforts that accompanied the films are, in this exhibition, the star of the show.
»Cameras from the Technology Collection
From May 5, 2005 through December 31, 2012 in the North Gallery.
"All the things the public most wants to see from the technology collection," that’s how Technology Curator Todd Gustavson describes the exhibition in the North Gallery. The display includes a variety of photographic highlights from camera obscuras through digital imaging designed to show the evolution of photography as well as its revolutions.