Traveling Exhibitions

The Gender Show

Beginning January 2014. · 350 linear feet · 12 week booking slots

This exhibition surveys how exaggerated and stereotypical male and female roles have been portrayed in photographs from the 19th century to present day. It includes 138 portraits by recognized photographic artists as well vernacular examples.

Ideas in Things

Fall 2012 · 70-150 running feet · 12 weeks week booking slots

Featuring objects from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, Ideas in Things includes everything from Edward Steichen proof prints to a contemporary daguerreotype by Binh Dahn and a platinum print by Frederick H. Evans. Focusing on the objects rather than the images, this exhibition illustrates some of the ways photographs live, move and change over time in the material world we share with them.

John Thomson: Street Life in London

Beginning 2013 · 50-100 running feet · 12 week booking slots

This exhibition showcases all 34 Woodburytypes from John Thomson's seminal publication, Street Life in London (1837-1921). His subjects-sweeps, bootblacks and flower sellers-were familiar types to consumers of popular genre prints of the period, but the use of the photographs gave these people and their surroundings an immediacy and individuality that had never been seen before.

Ideal Forms: Photographs by Frederick H. Evans

Beginning Fall 2012 · 100-250 running feet · 12 week booking slots

Throughout his career, Frederick H. Evans aimed to record the ideal forms that exemplified his life-long appreciation and study of the beautiful. Beauty, for Evans, was the recognition of the connection between the spiritual and the physical. From his images of microscopic specimens to his photographs of cathedrals, Evans´s work is imbued with his belief in the divine interrelation of all matter.

60 From The 60s: Selections from George Eastman House

Beginning 2011 · 200 linear feet · 12 week booking slots

The exhibition of 60 prints features 10 of the most significant photographers from the 1960s, a decade that saw many new photography styles – collage, street photography, and photojournalism coverage of riots. “60 from the 60s: Selections from George Eastman House” offers a dynamic look at photography of the era. The exhibition features the work of photographers who were just beginning to create a name for themselves in the 1960s, as well as established artists then in the midst of successful careers.

Colorama

beginning 2011 · 300-350 Linear Feet · Facsimile Show · 10 week booking slots

For forty years, the enormous color transparencies that graced Grand Central Terminal touched the hearts of millions. Today, they represent not only an appealing and believable idealization of American life, but a nuanced and effective use of photographs to create desire for the products and activities they sold.

Between the States: Photographs of the American Civil War from George Eastman House

April 2011 through December 2015 · 150+ Linear Feet · Facsimile Show · 8 week booking slots

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of “Mr. Lincoln’s War,” Between the States: Photographs of the American Civil War presents a selection of facsimile photographs of historical Civil War sites and circumstances by photographers including George Barnard, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner.

Due to the rarity and condition of many of these objects, this exhibition is comprised of facsimile reproductions matching the size and color of the originals. Mounted as a traditional exhibition, it includes sections on Gardner’s Sketchbook, Brady’s Album Gallery, Civil War Personalities, Portraits of Soldiers, The CSS Alabama, and The Lincoln Conspiracy. Each section addresses points of interest from photographic history, civil war events, or the George Eastman House Collection.

The Rise of a Landmark

Ongoing Availability · 200 linear ft. · Facsimile Show · 8 week booking slots

From bedrock to the colossus of the Manhattan skyline, photographer Lewis Wickes Hine documented every foot of the construction of the monumental Empire State Building

Let Children be Children

Ongoing Availability · 200 linear ft. · Facsimile Show · 8 week booking slots

Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874-1940) was a sociologist whose photographs captured his abiding concern for children, immigrants, and working-class people.

Ghosts in the Landscape

Available through 2015 · 250 linear ft. · 8 week booking slots

Over a four-year period beginning in 1995, photographer Craig J. Barber, ex-combat Marine, returned to Vietnam to traverse many of his former military routes, making images with an 8 x 10-inch pinhole camera. Part cathartic exercise, part curiosity about what had become of this once war-torn country, Barber has created a series of diptych and triptych panorama platinum images that capture the serene beauty of the country, and at times for him, the all-too memorable landscapes.

Conscience the Ultimate Weapon

Ongoing Availability · 1000 sq. ft. · 8 or 12 week booking slots

In the 1960's America erupted into an expression of First Amendment rights. As the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement escalated, so did tensions across the country. Ultimately these tensions exploded in 1968 with the assassination of the country's most dynamic leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.