Traveling Exhibitions

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.

Male / Female

Beginning 2012 · 450 linear feet · 12 week booking slots

A selection of over 120 portraits from the George Eastman House collection explore the many ways gender has been presented to the camera from the 19th Century to the present. Includes work by Richard Avedon, Edward Weston, Barbara Norfleet, Robert Frank, Mary Ellen Mark, and Edward Steichen, as well as stunning and rarely-seen vernacular examples in the form of cabinet cards depicting early vaudeville and music hall stars.

Steve McCurry: Looking East

beginning 2011 · 600 linear feet (editing allowed) · 12 week booking slots

No contemporary photographer is more associated with the Indian subcontinent and Afghanistan, its troubled neighbor, than Steve McCurry. His iconic 1984 photograph Afghan Girl put a face to what was then an almost unknown culture. As a member of Magnum Photos and a regular contributor to National Geographic, he continues to interpret this complex and compelling part of the world.

Roger Ballen: Photographs

January 2011 - 2015 · 300-350 Linear Feet · 10 week booking slots

Contemporary—and often controversial—artist Roger Ballen is known for his thought-provoking photography and his particular attention to rich detail, photographing his human and animal subjects in complex scenes filled with symbolism.

Colorama

beginning 2011 · 300-350 Linear Feet · 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.

Marvels of Modernism

Through 2011 · 100 linear feet · 8 week booking slots

Kidney-shaped pools, boomerang curves, floating cantilevered decks, adventure playgrounds, sculptural Japanese maples, revolutionary new materials, the melding of Modern forms and classic sensibilities. Often experimental and innovative, these gardens and landscapes possess subdued transitions between indoors and outdoors, yet they have often been misunderstood and under appreciated.

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

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

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

The Rise of a Landmark

Ongoing Availability · 200 linear ft. · 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. · 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.

Requiem

Ongoing Availability · 450 or 600 linear ft. · 12 week booking slots

Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict were recorded as missing or dead.

Ghosts in the Landscape

Available through 2011 · 250 linear ft. · 8 week booking slots

Over a four-year period beginning in 1995, photographer Craig J. Barber, excombat 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 beome 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.

State of the Blues

Available through 2011 · 400 linear ft. · 12 week booking slots

State of the Blues: The Living Legend of the Delta pays homage to the living legends of the Mississippi Delta blues through a series of intimate portraits.

Why Look at Animals?

Available through 2011 · 700 linear ft. · 12 week booking slots

The relationships between humans and the other animals on our planet are complex and profound. Why Look at Animals? examines the ways animals have been represented photographically over time, from the romantic pastoral images of P.H. Emerson, to the sardonic and edgy metaphors of John Heartfield, to the scientific documents of Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton...

Heroes of Horticulture

Available through 2011 · 75-100 linear ft. · 8 week booking slots

They are the sole witnesses to some of the nation's greatest people and most significant moments. Some are hundreds of years old: the horse chestnut tree that shaded suffragist Susan B. Anthony in the late 19th century; the tree peony specimens at Linwood Gardens in upstate New York; the live oak tree allée in Houston, and Charleston's angel southern live oak, a majestic living legacy from the antebellum South. They are among the 2007 designations of significant landscapes at risk of being lost by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF).

Tracks: Photography and the Railroad from the George Eastman House Collection

Available through 2011 · 150 linear ft. · 8 week booking slots

A survey of images depicting railroads and images related to railroads from around the world Tracks: Photography and the Railroad from the George Eastman House Collection covers more than 160 years of photographic and railroad history.

Conscience the Ultimate Weapon

Available through 2012 · 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.